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the french interior ministry says 719 people were detained in a fifth night of protests. france has been gripped by violent demonstrations after the police shooting death of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop. in marseilles, riot police fired tear gas. the mayor of of a paris suburb says his home was attacked in what he calls an assassination attempt. he says the attackers rammed a car in his house to set his house on fire. >> nic robertson is in france for us. give us the latest on the situation there. >> reporter: yeah, we are outside the mayor's office here. this was -- we are in that southern suburb of paris. this is where the protesters tried to attack first. they tried to get at the mayor in his office here. they failed to do that. they have been doing that for a number of days. that's why they went to his house, it appears, and tried to attack hum in his house, but he wasn't there.