here, a crowd of protesters broke into a night shop in central paris. in romainville, a supermarket was looted. these riots are bad news for the french president, emmanuel macron. he had to leave a meeting of eu leaders in brussels to come back to paris and hold a crisis meeting. clashes like these between the residents of the french suburbs and the police are not rare, but they normally last a day or two. not since 2005 have protests spread across the country at this scale. the police officer who shot dead nahel has been arrested and charged with homicide. but for many people, what happened to nahel was the final straw. they are deeply angry at the police and the government fears that their anger could translate into more riots
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