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France dealt with its fifth consecutive night of widespread rioting, arson and attacks on police following the officer-involved shooting of a 17-year-old French-Algerian teenager. In the Paris suburb of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, rioters attempted to burn down the home of town mayor Vincent Jeanbrun while his wife and young children were inside, according to a report from French newspaper Le Figaro.
“My wife and children in shock and hurt,” the mayor wrote in a social media post shortly after 2 a.m. local time. The tweet was soon deleted, though members of the mayors staff later confirmed details of the attack to Le Figaro.
Jeanbrun was at the town hall at the time of the attack, which he ordered to be fortified with barbed wire after dozens of government buildings had been attacked Molotov cocktails and other explosives devices in preceding days. The mayor had also called on the French government to declare a state of emergency in order to quell the rioting on Saturday…
