Paris Riots
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France implements fireworks ban for Bastille Day celebration after riots
The ban does not extend to professionals or municipalities organising traditional fireworks displays for France's national day
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Unrest grips France's countryside as rioting now spread to small towns
After a pleasant evening of wine-tasting joyfully billed Grapes and Friends! with a hundred or so people and oysters, charcuteries and cheeses, the mayor of the picturesque French town of Quissac was on his way home. Then his phone rang: Urban unrest that was engulfing France after the deadly police shooting of a teenager on Paris' outskirts, hundreds of kilometers (miles) and a world away to the north, had careened into Quissac's tranquility, too. In a quick hit-and-run, a small group of people seemingly no more than four, the mayor says bombarded the local gendarmes' barracks on Quai de la Gare road with powerful fireworks, denting its metal shutters and setting fire to a cypress tree. In the grander scheme of things, it wasn't much compared to orgies of destruction, arson, looting and rioting unleashed on multitudes of other communities across France in six nights of mayhem. Still, for the town of 3,300 people in the Gard region of southern France, it was a first. Quissac's
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Turmoil in France continues as grandmother of slain teen calls for peace
The 17-year-old teen was shot and killed by a police officer on June 27 during a routine traffic check in Nanterre in Paris
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France arrests 1,300 after 4th night of riots over teen's killing by police
France's Interior Ministry said Saturday that 1,311 people were arrested around the country during a fourth night of riots triggered by the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old by police. The government deployed 45,000 police around the country to try to quell violence. Overnight young protesters clashed with police, set some 2,500 fires and ransacked stores. The funeral ceremony for Nahel, who was killed by police in the suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday, began Saturday with a visitation, to be followed by a mosque ceremony and burial in a cemetery there.
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Paris police use water cannon, tear gas as yellow vests mark anniversary
Some were seen throwing stones at officers and setting fire to street trash cans, a motorcycle and other urban equipment on Place d'Italie, in the southeast of the city
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The ever-changing meaning of violence
Depending on the community involved, violence is classified differently in India and given different names
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Vote on Brexit deal: With sleeping bags and mini golf, traders gear up
France is the latest place where platforms like Facebook and Twitter, but also messaging software like Whatsapp and Telegram, are being used by protesters to organise and coordinate
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