France Riots: Macron Tells Parents To Keep Kids Off Streets1 min read

Urging social media firms to remove the “most sensitive” content related to the rioting, the French president said that the platforms were fueling copycat violence.

Additional security forces would be deployed, he said, denouncing the “unacceptable exploitation of a death of an adolescent”.

In the violent protests, a total of 492 buildings have been damaged, 2,000 vehicles burned and 3,880 fires started, according to figures given by the president at the start of a crisis meeting.

The protests come following the death of a 17-year-old at a police traffic stop. The killing was caught on video igniting anger over incidents of police violence and allegations of systemic racism within law enforcement.

Earlier, the government vowed to examine “all options” to restore order after the third night of protests during which more than two hundred police were injured, authorities said.

Emmanuel Macron has so far ruled out declaring a state of emergency. France’s prime minister called the violence “intolerable and inexcusable”, saying, “The priority is to ensure national unity and the way to do it is to restore order.”