A relative of the boy killed by French police has told the BBC that laws allowing police officers to use their guns in traffic stops must change
The family member also called for an end to the violence, saying it is "not for Nahel"
Earlier, the boy's grandmother told French TV that her daughter "is lost" and “no longer has a life” after Nahel’s death
In a southern Paris suburb, attackers tried to set fire to the local mayor's home and fired rockets at the his fleeing wife and children
President Macron has met senior officials amid hopes that the worst of the violence is now over
Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne has been to L’Hay-les-Roses where the mayor’s house was attacked, and said “no violence will go unpunished”
Image source, EPAFrench PM Elisabeth Borne is to attend the command room of the national police at the ministry of interior on Saturday night, the AFP news agency is reporting.
She will then visit Paris police HQ to follow operations in maintaining order, the outlet reports.
Intense and widespread rioting has been taking place across France, following the shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.
Video on social media showed the moment the police shooting of Nahel M took place in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday.
Here's how events have unfolded this week:
France shooting: How a teenager's death sparked riots
Image source, AFPThe mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, has told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme that a combination of factors was to blame for the violence seen in recent days.
"There is 40 years, first, of degradation, really, and lack of future for all those neighbourhoods where five million people live in France, very poor neighbourhoods.
"And on the other side, I think [because of] the political decisions around the police in the last 20 years, there is a lack now of direction for the police around the connection [relations] with the population, around also the way to maintain order, and I think it has been worse in the last years."
Image source, ReutersIn the northern city of Lille, police special forces have been seen taking to the street as France braces for a fourth successive night of unrest.
The elite Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (RAID) unit has been seen manning checkpoints around the city.
Images from the city overnight showed firefighters extinguishing blazes in car that had been set alight by rioters.
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Image source, Getty ImagesWe'll bring you more from Marseille in a moment - but for now, let's move to Nanterre, the place where 17-year-old Nahel was shot by police on Tuesday, sparking four nights of unrest.
People in Nanterre have diverging views on the violence, how it is affecting their town, and what's behind it, they tell European broadcasting network EVN.
Isabelle: "There's nothing left, everything has been destroyed. That's why I'm really shocked. I don't understand it. It's sad what happened to young Nahel. But why are we being treated like this? At the moment, I haven't slept all night, so I'm tired. We're worn out."
Fayez: "But we'll say that it's just the trigger for all this. The explosion. The spark that made everything burn. It's more a general social frustration. The fact that young people have nothing to do. Most of them don't have jobs. In reality, we're not even surprised by the hatred that's going on."
There are reports that groups of people are trying to loot shops on the Canebière, one of Marseille's main shopping streets.
Police are quoted by local media as saying that there have been 14 arrests so far in the city, where police reinforcements were sent earlier in anticipation of increased violence tonight.
So far, groups of looters have been broken up effectively thanks to the large police force deployed in the city, police say.
Of the 14 people arrested, seven were caught in the act of stealing from a store in a shopping centre, while other individuals tried to break into the Canebière fire station, but were stopped by police, BFMTV reports.
Videos shared on social media have shown residents of the city of Marseille bracing for another night of clashes.
Footage circulating on the Snapchat platform showed shop owners on the Rue Saint-Ferréol, one of the city's main shopping districts, boarding up their storefronts with large sheets of wood.
The street is just seven minutes walk away from the Centre Commercial Bourse, where the BBC earlier verified that clashes were taking place between demonstrators and police.
In one video a man could be seen using a drill to secure a large sheet of plywood to the front of his shop, while other businesses in the area - including a Dr Martens outlet - were already secured.
Elsewhere, one clip showed heavily armed riot police walking down a nearby street.
In another, a large column of police vans were seen entering the city.
We're getting pictures of the clashes in Marseille coming through, which show police and protesters pitted against each other in the centre of the city.
Image source, AFPProtesters walk past a burnt-out bin in Marseille
Image source, AFPProtesters run away from tear gas during the clashes
Image source, AFPPolice officers are seen deployed at the protests in Marseille
Samuel Horti
Live reporter
We're seeing the first evidence that police are trying to disperse crowds in the southern city of Marseille, where extra officers have been deployed.
Videos circulating on social media show groups of police in riot gear - some carrying shields - moving through the centre of the city, in some cases running.
Some in the city say the police have fired tear gas - and in one video, you can see a police officer throwing a cannister.
In at least one video reviewed by the BBC, demonstrators could be seen throwing some sort of projectile at officers.
Metadata analysis of the videos suggest they were shot within the last few hours. Some videos show the same scene from different angles, of police moving along the Canebière, a main street in the centre of the city.
We now have more information about the extra police sent to the city of Marseille, in response to requests from officials there.
Those reinforcements will include members of the elite tactical unit GIGN (Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale), media outlet BFMTV reports, citing the regional police.
An extra 200 agents from the CRS - the mobile reserve officers of the French National Police - are also on their way to the city, the interior minister said at a press conference.
He said helicopters and armoured vehicles were available to forces across France.
We reported earlier that CRS 8, a specialist unit for urban violence, was being deployed to Lyon.
Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Nanterre
Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockBeside the discreet barricades outside the cemetery in Nanterre today, a small crowd waited for Nahel’s funeral cortege.
There was more tension than talking.
All filming - even on phones - was banned: “No Snapchat, no Insta,” mourners were told.
The message to journalists was starker: get a camera out at your peril - public interest in Nahel grating against more private ties.
One woman - who wasn’t at the funeral today - told us she knew Nahel a little. She didn’t want to be identified.
She said the violence triggered by his death was unhelpful:
"Burning everything - schools, town halls - it’s useless.
"Everything they are doing, the parents will pay the price. [But] if there are riots it’s because the police are looking for it - when they check young people’s IDs 10 times a day, it’s irritating."
Chris Bockman
Reporting from Toulouse
One veteran police officer who has been on the front line most nights during the disturbances in the south-western city of Toulouse admitted the situation was extremely complicated.
Michael - not his real name - told me his team monitors all social media accounts, especially the Snapchat app, to work out where youths are likely to be gathered and how many of them will turn up.
He said one night there might be 200, the next up to 1,000, so it’s difficult to know how many officers need to be on call each night. On top of that, he added, trouble had spread to neighbourhoods which hadn't experienced urban rioting before.
He says his greatest fear is police officers coming under live fire. He said colleagues in Paris had been shot at. He said that had not occurred in Toulouse, but several police armouries had been looted and no-one knew who had those weapons or where they may end up.
When I asked him how this would all play out, he sighed and said that was the problem and that no-one had any idea.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said some 45,000 police officers will be deployed tonight - the same number as yesterday.
He confirmed reinforcements were being sent to the cities of Marseille and Lyon after officials there requested extra help.
It's not clear whether those reinforcements are additional to the 45,000, or if authorities are simply moving police to Marseille and Lyon from other places.
We'll see if we can find out more soon.
Since the killing of the 17-year-old French boy of Algerian descent by the police during a traffic stop, accusations against the French police for being racist have increased.
The French police union leader denies officers are racist. "You don't control people because of their skin colour," Thierry Clair, the deputy secretary general of UNSA-Police, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.
"No, the French police are not racist. There can be some behaviour which is on the borderline and some officers have been sanctioned - sometimes sacked - for such acts, but it's something that is marginal, like it happens in any corporation or institution."
The accusations found a voice in the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva, too.
As our correspondent Imogen Foulkes reported from Geneva, the UN’s human rights office said the unrest in France was a chance for the country "to address deep issues of racism in law enforcement," pointing to a recent report by the UN, which expressed deep concern at disproportionate use of identity checks and imposition of fines on specific ethnic groups.
The French foreign ministry rejected that with a statement, saying "Any accusation of racism or systematic discrimination in the police force in France is totally unfounded."
As the unrest in France continues, some false and misleading posts are being shared online with the potential to increase tensions.
BBC Verify has looked at one video, showing a yellow Mercedes speeding along a road and overtaking a lorry. There are claims that it shows the Parisian teenager, Nahel M, driving recklessly before he was stopped by police and shot.
A tweet in French, viewed more than 230,000 times, claims: "Here is the scene that the police had to manage and which motivated them to stop the vehicle at all costs."
While the time and location of the video is unclear, it is possible to confirm that this claim is false.
BBC Verify zoomed in on the number plate of the speeding car in the online video.
Image source, UnknownAnd then compared it with the number plate visible in images and videos of the yellow Mercedes - driven by the teenager - following the fatal shooting and subsequent crash in Paris.
Image source, UnknownThe two number plates are different.
We reported earlier that more than 1,300 people were arrested overnight across France in a fourth night of rioting, sparked by the police shooting of a teenager.
Now, French Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti says that around 30% of the protesters arrested yesterday were under 18 years old.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says that the average age of those arrested was 17, and that over 200 police officers were injured overnight.
Hugh Schofield
Paris correspondent
The funeral has been held in Nanterre of the 17 year-old, Nahel, who was killed by police on Tuesday after he refused to stop at a road check.
After the service at the mosque in the Paris suburb, his body was to be taken to the local cemetery. Supporters of the family told the news media to keep away.
There are fears that after the burial, there’ll be more disturbances – both in Nanterre and around the country. Extra police have been sent to Marseille after serious rioting and looting there last night.
Across France more than 230 buildings - including police stations and townhalls - were damaged last night, and 1,300 vehicles destroyed.
After four straight nights of action, police unions are warning that their members are close to exhaustion - and they say stocks of munitions such as tear-gas and dispersal grenades are running low.
Sofia Bettiza
Reporting from Lille
In Lille, a curfew has been imposed in some neighbourhoods - for minors not accompanied by an adult.
Last night, 82 people were arrested in the area. 7 police officers were injured.
Not everyone we spoke to here supports the riots.
Chloe, a 22-year-old student, says she’s terrified.
“I heard a helicopter above my house. I saw lights aiming at the neighbourhood. I heard explosions, and I could see smoke from the window because of the cars burning in the street.”
Some people can relate to the anger that has erupted in France – but only to an extent.
“There was no need to kill Nahel”, says Jams -a local resident in his 50s.
“He didn’t do anything wrong. Young people want justice, but this is not the way to do it. Burning and breaking things…that is not justice. They should let the legal system do its job.”
Video shows fatal French traffic stop shooting
On Tuesday, police shot dead a 17-year-old who failed to stop for a traffic check.
The teenager, named as Nahel M, was shot at point-blank range as he drove off and crashed soon afterwards.
According to French media, police initially suggested the teen drove his car towards them with the intention of hurting them. But footage you can see above - which was verified by the AFP news agency - shows an officer pointing his weapon at the driver through his window and appearing to fire at point-blank range.
The agency also reports that a person in the video can be heard saying: "You're going to be shot in the head" - but it is unclear who says it.
Since the death of Nahel, hundreds have taken to the streets across France.
Image source, AFPThe Paris region is stopping all buses and trams after 21:00 local time for a second day running.
Public transport authority of Île-de-France, the most populated region of France which includes the capital and its suburbs, declared that "all trams and buses in Île-de-France will be stopped in the evening no later than 21:00. This measure will be renewed every evening until further notice."
Public transport is also cancelled after 19:00 in Marseille and 20:00 in Lyon, both local time.