France has seen a wave of massive protests following the death of a teen at the hands of police.
On Thursday, air traffic controllers at Paris’ Beauvais Airport saw a complete shutdown of flights as travelers flock to the top tourism destination.
In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a vigil.
Protesters scrawled “Vengeance for Nahel” across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire.
In central Paris, a Nike shoe store was broken into after store windows were smashed along the rue de Rivoli shopping street, Paris police said.
Fires and fireworks erupted in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille.
Videos on social media showed numerous fires across the country, including at a bus depot in a suburb north of Paris and a tram in the eastern city of Lyon.
In Marseille, France’s second city, police fired tear gas grenades during clashes with youths in the tourist hot-spot of Le Vieux Port.
The incident is one of many examples of the racism enforced by the police and their subjugation of low-income, racially mixed suburbs around major cities in France.