Youths clash with French police, loot stores in fourth day of riots
Police said 270 people had been arrested by midnight nationwide.
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Police said 270 people had been arrested by midnight nationwide.
France has stopped short of declaring a state of emergency — a measure taken to quell weeks of rioting after the death of two boys fleeing police in 2005.
PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and blamed social media for fueling rioting that has spread dramatically across France following the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver.
French President Macron accused rioters of exploiting the situation as 471 were arrested on the fourth day of the riots.
The southern port city of Marseille, initially spared the violence that broke out first in the Paris region, was experiencing its second night of upheaval.