hello and welcome to bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. we start in france where officials say nearly 1000 protesters were arrested in a fourth night of rioting after the police shooting of 17 year old nahel m in a parisien suburb. overnight, the interior minister claimed that there had been a downturn in violence . the unrest broke out in several cities but notably in marseille, in the south of the country. video footage shows streets on fire, and shops including a gun store being attacked and looted by rioters. despite the deployment of 16,000 police officers across the country, the violence has continued including in the capital, paris. further afield, french media reported riots breaking out in french caribbean territories where one person was killed. the french football star and captain
what began with the death of nahel has now come to represent something bigger. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news. 0ur europe editor, katya adler, gave us this update from nanterre, where the funeral for 17 year old nahel will take place later today. i m in nanterre, an area outside paris where nahel, the 17 year old unarmed boy shot and killed by a french policeman earlier this week at a traffic stop, lived and died. his funeral will be taking place in a few hours time. again last night it was a scene of destruction, you can see these burnt out cars behind me, fireworks were set off at the police overnight. it was a loud night and a loud morning because the authorities here are trying to clear up the mess ahead of the funeral. nahel s family have appealed for calm, and so has france s national football team.
with allegations i think by mr macron himself saying that social media is playing a part now in inciting that violence. is there a indication as to how this is being coordinated, who is leading these protests? people are now saying it has moved on from the death of nahel and it is now more gratuitous. it and it is now more gratuitous. it has not moved on, if you like. if you talk to youths here, they will say, we face discrimination by police every day but nobody listens to us. when it is recorded, it is irrefutable evidence. what you have your about the killing of nahel is that originally, the police man shot him said that he felt his life and the life of his colleague was in danger from the life of his colleague was in dangerfrom nahel, but when the life of his colleague was in danger from nahel, but when you the life of his colleague was in dangerfrom nahel, but when you look at that radio editor clearly was not. i think that helped trigger the outrage in areas like this, just like
hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in france where protests have continued into a fourth night, resulting in over a71 arrests, but the interior minister gerald darmanin said there had been a downturn in violence. despite mr darmanin s claims, there are reports of widespread chaos in cities across france, with buildings and vehicles torched and stores looted. in other developments, the government requested a shutdown of overnight bus and tram services. and 16,000 police officers were deployed overnight. meanwhile, french football star, captain of the national side, kylian mbappe, said violence solves nothing, and calls for it to be replaced by mourning, dialogue and reconstruction. the unrest began after nahel m, a 17 year old, was shot dead by police as he drove
on tuesday, has been charged with voluntary homicide. let s get the latest now from paris and speak to our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan. we are in the centre of paris, not too far from the suburb of nanterre where the funeral has been taking place on 17 year old nahel whose death, he was shot by a police officer, has sparked protests, many officer, has sparked protests, many of course which have now turned violent. we hearfrom nanterre that there have been crowds on the streets in the vicinity of the funeral peacefully chancing for justice for nahel. of course some of the protests overnight in the last few days have been incredibly violent, and it was another night of violence, friday and saturday, more