The mayor of a suburb of Paris mentioned on Sunday that protesters had rammed a automobile into his house after which set the car on hearth, injuring his spouse and one in every of his kids, as violent demonstrations throughout France over the police killing of a 17-year-old stretched right into a fifth evening.

“Last night, a milestone was reached in terms of horror and ignominy,” the mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun, of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a city to the south of the capital, said in a statement on Twitter.

In a separate assault, the police said on Twitter that rioters had tried to set hearth to a automobile belonging to a different mayor, within the city of La Riche, close to the town of Tours, southwest of Paris.

Across the remainder of France, Saturday night had typically been calmer than latest nights, throughout which a whole bunch of protests have taken place nationwide. But nonetheless, native news media reported rioting, looting and clashes in Marseille, France’s second-largest metropolis, and a whole bunch extra folks have been arrested.

Tensions remained excessive on Sunday after the funeral the day earlier than for the 17-year-old, named publicly only as Nahel Merzouk., of Algerian and Moroccan descent, who was fatally shot on Tuesday throughout a visitors cease in Nanterre, a Paris suburb. Many protesters mentioned that they noticed themselves within the sufferer, connecting his destiny with their very own experiences of neglect and racial discrimination in France’s poorer city suburbs.

Mr. Merzouk’s grandmother, who was additionally recognized by solely her first title, Nadia, spoke to the French news channel BFMTV on Sunday and requested the rioters to face down.

“People who are breaking things, I tell them, ‘Stop,’” she mentioned, including that they need to chorus from smashing store home windows or focusing on colleges and buses.

“It’s moms who take buses,” she mentioned.

In L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Mr. Jeanbrun mentioned that he had been spending the evening within the city corridor, as he had been for the earlier three nights, when a automobile was pushed at his home at 1:30 a.m. whereas his spouse and youngsters have been sleeping inside. His spouse and one in every of his kids have been injured as they tried to run away, he mentioned.

Stéphane Hardouin, the general public prosecutor in Créteil, a city close by, mentioned that preliminary indications have been that the automobile had crashed into the home with the intention of setting the constructing on hearth, and he famous that some accelerant had been present in a bottle.

Mr. Hardouin mentioned {that a} small wall had stopped the automobile earlier than it reached the home’s veranda, and that solely the entrance gate and the household’s automobile had been affected. Hearing the noise and seeing flames, the mayor’s spouse and his kids, ages 5 and seven, tried to flee by means of the again backyard, however his spouse injured herself, apparently breaking her shin, Mr. Hardouin added.

The French inside minister, Gérald Darmanin, referred to as the assault “cowardly and terrible,” and said in a post on Twitter that an attempted-murder investigation had been opened. “The perpetrators of these facts will answer for their heinous acts,” he wrote.

The French prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, traveled to L’Haÿ-les-Roses to precise her assist for the mayor, calling the assault unacceptable. She mentioned that the federal government would transfer to impose harsher punishments on those that assault native representatives.

Ms. Borne mentioned that assaults resembling these in opposition to the city’s mayor have been “particularly shocking.”

The workplace of President Emmanuel Macron of France mentioned in a press release on Sunday that he would maintain a gathering on the Élysée Palace on Sunday night with the prime minister, the inside minister and the justice minister to evaluate the state of affairs throughout the nation. On Saturday, Mr. Macron postponed a state visit to Germany as his authorities targeted on the riots at house.

While the variety of law enforcement officials deployed throughout the nation was not elevated, extra have been despatched in a single day to quell protests in Grenoble, Lyon and Marseille, according to Mr. Darmanin.

In a statement on Twitter early Sunday, the Interior Ministry mentioned that 719 folks have been arrested in a single day and that 45 law enforcement officials had been injured. On Friday evening, more than 1,300 were arrested.

In a Twitter post, Mr. Darmanin added that 45,000 law enforcement officials had been deployed throughout the nation on Saturday night, a quantity much like the evening earlier than.

“A calmer night,” he wrote on Twitter, “thanks to the resolute action of the police.”

Maud Bodoukian contributed reporting.