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Here's a round-up of some of the day's developments as France attempts to get a handle on riots that have engulfed the country this week:

• The grandmother of the 17-year-old boy killed by French police has called for calm as the riots enter their sixth night
• Relatives of the boy have also told the BBC they they didn't ask people to break or steal and they weren't honouring his legacy
• President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency meeting to assess the situation going into Sunday evening

• The mayor of Marseille has announced €2m (£1.7m) for traders in the city whose businesses have been damaged in the riots
• Armoured personnel carriers have been seen on the streets of Marseille in an effort to quell more unrest

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President Emmanuel Macron has finished meeting senior officials in Paris.

He asked ministers to "continue to do everything to restore order and guarantee a return to calm".

Macron said he remained firmly alongside the security forces who were trying to restore calm to the streets but at the same time was looking in detail at the events that led to the death of 17-year-old Nahel.

The president is due to meet leaders of parliament on Monday, and more than 220 mayors of towns and cities that have been affected by the riots on Tuesday.

The interior ministry has just announced that there have been 49 arrests nationwide on Sunday as of 23:30 local time (21:30 GMT).

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Former French President Francois Hollande has been speaking about the riots, which he says are "not an immigration problem".

"It's our social and republican model that needs to be deepened," he said, in an interview with French broadcaster LCI.

The ex-leader said it was very important to restore authority and order, adding that "no social cause justifies the use of violence".

“The only valid principle is that of national unity. National unity to support young Nahel's family, national unity for justice, and support for law enforcement and public authorities," he said.

Sofia Bettiza
Reporting from Lille

Several schools have been targeted by the rioters. One of them is Nursery School Albert Samain – its canteen was severely damaged by the flames.

Some of the pupils wrote a sign and hung it outside the main entrance. It reads:

“Please do not burn the schools. It’s super important. Thank you.”

Marie is a mother-of-four, and spoke to us outside her home.

“We are scared for our children. They cried all night long, because of the fire and the explosions.”

Her son chimes in: “I couldn’t sleep because of the explosions. I thought they were going to burn our home. I thought they were going to burn me too.”

Yesterday we reported from an office building that was burned to the ground.

Today, residents told us that some of the people who set fire to it were directly related to the people who worked there. Several of them were their cousins.

The 500 employees who had offices there are likely to be temporarily laid off.

Kamel, a man in his 40s who’s lived in Roubaix his whole life, summed up what so many people in this area feel:

“These people are destroying their own communities and their own neighbourhood. The riots are incomprehensible.”

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The mayor of Marseille has announced €2m (£1.7m) for traders in the city whose businesses have been damaged in the riots.

The southern city has been the scene of widespread chaos since Tuesday, with many local businesses attacked and looted.

Benoît Payan said that the money would be released to deal with an "exceptional" situation.

"Shops are essential to the daily life of the people of Marseille and to the dynamism of our city. It is our role to be at their side and I know that I can also count on all the communities to participate with us in this effort," he said in a statement.

Video has emerged of armoured personnel carriers in the centre of Marseille.

The BBC has verified that the footage was taken in the area of Le Canebiere, the main avenue of the central district.

The vehicles were apparently filmed earlier this evening.

If you're just joining us, here are the latest developments in France today:

• The grandmother of the 17-year-old boy killed by French police has called for calm as the riots enter their sixth night
• 45,000 police officers have been deployed across the country to quell rioters
• The President, Emmanuel Macron, has held an emergency meeting to assess the situation going into Sunday evening
• The mayor of L'Hay Les Roses had his home attacked overnight. His wife broke her leg while fleeing from the attack and the French prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, has condemned the violence
• Relatives of the boy have also told the BBC they want the rioting to stop, saying they didn't ask people to break or steal and they weren't honouring his legacy
• And the mayor of Nanterre has asked people to listen to the call from the family and stop rioting

We'll keep bringing you updates here into the evening.

Insaf Abbas
Reporting from Neuilly-sur-Seine

In the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, I spoke to Larissa, a 23-year-old au pair from Brazil. She's been living in France for just under a year.

"We have similar things going on in Brazil right now," she says of the protests. "Police using their power in a way that they shouldn't. And I think people have to stand up to it."

She feels that it's people from ethnic minorities that are targeted by police, particularly black men.

Back in 2020, São Paulo, where Larissa is from, became the first state to issue body cameras to police officers. Rio de Janeiro followed suit last year.

Although France has also implemented the use of body cameras, Larissa believes that more stringent use and monitoring could help bring down incidents of police brutality.

A relative of the teen shot by police in France says the family did not want his death to spark riots.

The family member tells the BBC that they do not believe the violence seen across France in recent days will bring justice for his death.

Read more here.

A GoFund me page for the police officer who shot Nahel has raised more than €738,718 (£634,391).

The page was set up by Jean Messiha, a former politician who supported Eric Zemmour, a far-right presidential candidate, in France's election.

The page claims the officer "has done his job and is now paying a high price".

Speaking earlier on Sunday, Nahel's grandmother Nadia told BFM TV her "heart is in pain" about the money donated for the officer.

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Amid all these riots and clashes around France, tourists are still pouring to the country.

Some of the ones in Paris, where the protests started on Tuesday after Nahel was killed by police in a Parisian suburb, say that they still feel safe.

Derol, an American tourist from Florida, says that it is unfortunate that it's happening when he is on holiday in the city, but his partner Miriam "has confidence in Macron to take care of the situation".

Pascual Gonzalez from Spain says that "he feels very safe" since he stays in an area where no violence is happening.

Another tourist from the US city of Chicago, Jacqueline Baughmend, says: "We also had that in the United States back in 2021 with George Floyd. Now, watching France go through their own version of it is interesting."

A young tourist from England, Claire, says that she checked the news and decided that it was absolutely fine to go to Paris.

"There's so many things going on in the world - if you listened to everything, you'd never travel."

Duncan, also from England, says: "You can see that it's still a lovely city, and we haven't come across any problems."

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President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with top ministers and security officials at the emergency crisis centre of the Interior Ministry to discuss the situation across France this evening.

Among those present include Élisabeth Borne, the French prime minister, Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister and Justice Minister Éric Dupont-Moretti.

Earlier we reported that 45,000 police officers have been deployed across the country to try and quell protests which have been going on for five consecutive evenings.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is watching the unrest in France "with concern", in an interview with German's ARD Television.

Emmanuel Macron was supposed to be in Germany on a state visit today, but had to postpone it because of the turmoil across the country.

Scholz says that while he's concerned, he believes Macron will be able to manage the situation.

"I don't expect that France will become unstable, even if the images of course are very distressing".

Rajini Vaidyanathan
Reporting from L'Hay Les Roses

It's quiet and sunny in the French suburb of L'Hay Les Roses, where hours earlier the Mayor's house was attacked.

A police car blocks the road, which is now cordoned off at one end. A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said he's horrified by what happened. "The government needs to introduce a state of emergency to stop this," he says emphatically.

Did the man who's lived here for 40 years sympathise with the reason protestors had taken to the streets? Not at all.

"It’s wrong to say the police is racist, there's racism in all professions but it's only a tiny minority of people," the man felt. "President Macron needs to deal with the rioters and this extremism head on," he added.

Katya Adler
Europe editor

Speaking to the BBC, relatives of Nahel say they want the rioting to stop as it does not honour his legacy.

"We didn't ask to break or steal. All of this is not for Nahel," they told the BBC, speaking on condition of anonymity.

They say they wanted people to participate in a peaceful march, to remember Nahel, but did not want people to become violent.

"We want everything to calm down. Social media, riots, everything needs to calm down" the relative says.

Katya Adler
Europe editor

Speaking to the BBC, a relative of Nahel M says the laws that allow police officers to use their guns in traffic stops must change.

The relative says they want "better training for the French police, weapons regulation for police, and reviewing the law that allows police to use lethal force if a young person refuses to traffic at a traffic stop".

France's penal code was changed in 2017 to allow for a broader use of firearms after police said they were facing increased levels of violence.

But critics argue the increase in traffic related shootings is a direct result of that change, which they say is much too vague because it leaves officers to determine whether the driver's refusal to comply poses a risk.

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French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says 45,000 officers will be deployed across the country to try and quell rioters this evening, amid fears of a sixth successive night of violence.

Le Monde reports that Darmanin gave strict instructions to officers that arrests be carried out as soon as possible.

Last night, 719 people were arrested across the country.

Protests over the killing of 17-year-old Nahel by the police in France have spread to Switzerland.

In Lausanne in the French-speaking western part of the country, around 100 people gathered after a social media message calling for protests on Saturday.

Police said in a statement that several shop windows were broken after some teenagers threw paving stones and a Molotov cocktail at them.

Officers detained seven people, six of them aged between 15 and 17 and who held citizenships of Portugal, Bosnia, Serbia, Georgia, Switzerland and Somalia.

"Quite clearly, what emerges from what we have seen is that these young people during the night were inspired by the situation in France," said a Lausanne police spokesman.

Davide Ghiglione
Reporting from Lille

Kamal, a 70-year-old who has lived in the impoverished Lille suburb of Roubaix all his life, said he’s concerned about the lack of solutions to solve France’s social problems - “but violence is certainly not one of them.”

“Of course, there are huge social differences between neighbourhoods so close to each other, but to obtain justice for such an unjust crime by destroying everything is incomprehensible,” he says.

“At the end of the day, people are destroying their own neighbourhoods, their environment, annihilating their already limited resources”, he adds.

Other residents, however, are still enraged at the police killing.

Ahmed, a 34-year-old taxi driver, who was born in Algeria but has lived in France for most of his life said: “I am tired of racism, the police cannot treat us like this. What happened to that boy is impossible to accept.

"Enough.”

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Earlier we heard from Nahel's grandmother, Nadia, calling for an end to the rioting.

The mayor of Nanterre, Patrick Jarry, has now asked the people of Nanterre to hear the call from Nadia, respect the family and end the violence.

“I know the anguish that a large number of residents of our city have shared over the past few nights with regard to the events experienced," he wrote in a press release.

"I want to thank the family and loved ones who organised the funeral. Following this ceremony, the family calls for an end to the violence. I ask all Nanterriens to carry this message," he adds.