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Days of violent protests in France after the fatal police shooting of a teenager have plunged President Emmanuel Macron into the gravest crisis of his leadership since the Yellow Vest protests that started in 2018. Videos and images on social media show protesters torching vehicles, and buildings and looting stores in several French cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille as well as Paris.

The riots broke out after Nahel M., a 17-year-old boy of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot by an officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday in the Nanterre suburb. The death was captured on camera, reigniting the longstanding complaints by poor and racially mixed urban communities of police violence and racism. Macron, however, denies there is systemic racism inside law enforcement agencies.

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