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00:00 A cascade of fireworks rains down on police in Nanterre as anger at the killing of a 17-year-old
00:08 boy by one of their colleagues continues for a second night in a row.
00:12 Nearby lies a trail of burning cars along one of the main roads of the suburb of western
00:18 Paris.
00:20 Unrest broke out as groups of local youths took their anger out on the security forces
00:25 who responded with blast balls and tear gas.
00:28 The family of Nael, who was shot dead during a police traffic stop on Tuesday morning,
00:33 have called for a march on Thursday but they also want peace to return to the streets.
00:39 Despite what the police have been saying, the boy's grandmother insists that he was
00:43 not a troublemaker.
00:45 "We really need to calm things.
00:48 We have to be calm.
00:50 Tomorrow we will march.
00:52 We will do it peacefully.
00:55 All the stuff about him being a delinquent is not true.
00:59 It's false.
01:00 It's a lie.
01:01 He was not a delinquent."
01:04 Other suburbs of Paris saw riots on Wednesday night as well as towns in France such as Lille
01:09 in the north and Toulouse in the south.
01:11 Public properties such as town halls, schools and nurseries were broken into and set ablaze.
01:18 France's Ontario minister announced that there were 150 arrests made across the country.
01:23 "The reactions that took place last night are not reactions that aim to repair or bring
01:30 justice but to attack the Republic.
01:32 But it is not the Republic that killed this young man.
01:35 It is not the Republican police who are responsible for this.
01:38 It is a man who must be judged if justice deems it necessary and it is precisely the
01:42 Republic that guarantees that if the person is guilty, he will be punished and justice
01:47 will be done for this crime."
01:52 Macron held a special security meeting at the Ontario ministry on Thursday morning,
01:57 during which he called the violence around Paris "unjustifiable".