Demonstrators, who were from the Asian community, gathered last night outside the multicultural 19th district's police station in the northeast of the French capital, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, of the Paris Prosecutor's Office.
The crowds of protesters gathered in homage to a Chinese man killed Sunday by a police officer, angry at reports that he was shot in his home in front of his children while he was cutting up fish and didn't attack.
China's Foreign Ministry expressed concern to French authorities on Tuesday over the killing of the man - shot, it said, by plainclothes officers.
With chants of "murderers" and candles that spelled "opposition to violence" lining the road last night, scores of demonstrators broke down barricades, threw projectiles and set fire to a car during the brutal clashes with myriad police that lasted several hours.
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A parked car was set on fire, with firefighters rushing to extinguish the blaze.
China's state-run Xinhua News Agency said that, according to witnesses, one man of Chinese origin was injured in the clashes.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that China had summoned a representative of the French embassy in Beijing Tuesday and urged French officials to "get to the bottom of the incident as soon as possible."
Hua said Chinese authorities "hope that Chinese nationals in France can express their wishes and demands in a reasonable way."
The victim's lawyer said the August 2016 attack was ethnically motivated, and the area's Chinese immigrant community says it is routinely targeted by armed robbers and violence.
The latest tensions come just days after thousands marched in Paris in a show of anger over the alleged rape in February of a young black man by police.
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