Authorities in France beefed up efforts to quell widespread unrest over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old that continued to engulf the country for a fourth evening, with more 1,300 protestors being arrested as cars and buildings were set ablaze and stores looted.
France’s Interior Ministry announced the 1,311 arrests countrywide — with 45,000 police officers fanned out in a so-far unsuccessful bid to curb violence — as family and friends prepared Saturday to bury the teen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, identified only as Nahel, in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where he resided and was killed Tuesday when a cop fired on him during a traffic stop.
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