Riots convulsing French cities after a police capturing moved into a 3rd night time on Thursday, after days of protesters burning automobiles, setting hearth to buildings and vandalizing and lighting fireworks outdoors police stations.

About 180 folks have been arrested and 170 officers injured, France’s inside minister mentioned. The unrest was in response to the killing of a 17-year-old by a police officer in Nanterre, a suburb west of Paris, on Tuesday.

Here is what to know in regards to the violence:

What set off the protests?

On Tuesday morning, a police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old boy, who has been recognized solely as Nahel M., whereas {the teenager} was driving. The prosecutor in Nanterre mentioned Nahel had been driving in a bus lane and, when officers tried to cease him, drove via a purple gentle to get away. He then received caught in visitors and the officers approached the automobile.

The prosecutor mentioned he was killed by a single shot that went via his left arm and chest.

Initial studies within the French news media, citing what have been described as nameless police sources, mentioned that {the teenager} had pushed into the 2 officers on the scene. But a video of the shooting that emerged shortly afterward appeared to contradict that account, exhibiting that the officer who fired the shot was not in any quick hazard as a result of the automobile was driving away.

The diverging accounts contributed to the violent unrest, which has affected greater than a dozen cities.

What is the standing of the police officer?

On Thursday night, the Nanterre prosecutor’s workplace introduced that the officer had been positioned underneath formal investigation on expenses of voluntary murder and detained.

Pascal Prache, the highest prosecutor in Nanterre, mentioned earlier within the day that the officer had not met the “legal conditions for the use of the weapon.”

Are extra protests deliberate?

With no signal of the protests dying down, the French prime minister rejected calls to declare a state of emergency in some areas. But anticipating additional unrest, France’s inside minister, Gérald Darmanin, mentioned that 40,000 officers can be deployed throughout France on Thursday night, greater than 4 occasions as many as on Wednesday night time.

Large crowds gathered on Thursday afternoon at a vigil march organized by {the teenager}’s household in Nanterre. Atop the cab of a flatbed truck, his mom, sporting a white T-shirt studying “Justice for Nahel,” led the gang in chants.

Later, police broke up the march utilizing tear fuel. It was unclear what occurred first — protesters setting fires or police setting off tear fuel canisters.

Why has the killing prompted a lot anger?

The unrest instantly revived recollections of 2005, when the deaths of two youngsters operating from the police set off weeks of violent protests, with lots of of younger folks from poorer suburbs of Paris setting hearth to automobiles and buildings.

In subsequent years, a number of beatings by the police and deaths in custody led to protests and fueled widespread accusations of police brutality.

Catherine Porter contributed reporting from Nanterre, France.