Mourners Bury Slain Teen in France as 45000 Police are Deployed and 5th Night of Unrest is Quieter

Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday. They were burying a 17-year-old whose killing by police has shaken the nation and triggered days of rioting and looting. Underscoring the gravity of the crisis, President Emmanuel Macron scrapped an official trip to Germany after nights of unrest across France. The government deployed 45,000 police to city streets across the nation to head off a fifth night of violence. Overnight, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that the night had been calmer than previous ones, thanks to “the resolute action of security forces.”

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