Some 1,300 protestors have been arrested last night following the death of a 17-year-old boy.

Thousands have gathered across France since Tuesday to protest after the boy, known as Nahel M, was shot by a police officer in a Paris suburb. 

Approximately 80 police officers were also injured in violent demonstrations. Up to 45,000 police officers were deployed last night. 

Security expert Louis Bernard says he's never seen anything like it as protestors ransack shops, set cars on fire and throw fireworks. 

“What's important to see in this particular case today is that those riots are widespread in different neighbourhoods outside a lot of different cities all over France,” he said. 

2RA4Y70 A protester holds a placard reading "dismiss the police is urgent" during a demonstration in Paris on June 30, 2023, over the shooting of a teenage driver by French police in a Paris suburb on June 27. France's interior minister says there's been a "downturn" in unrest on a fourth night of rioting, with 471 arrests compared with 917 the previous night. But further violence has been reported in several French cities.The disturbances began on Tuesday after police shot dead a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent, named as Nahel M. The officer who shot Nahel has apologised to the family, but the te

Up to one third of those arrested are teenagers, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. 

“It is the parents' responsibility to keep them at home, and therefore I appeal to that sense of parental responsibility to mothers and fathers of families,” he said. 

2RA4Y73 A woman holds a placard reading "Police are racist and kill children" during a protest in Paris, France, Friday, June 30, 2023. France's interior minister says there's been a "downturn" in unrest on a fourth night of rioting, with 471 arrests compared with 917 the previous night. But further violence has been reported in several French cities.The disturbances began on Tuesday after police shot dead a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent, named as Nahel M. The officer who shot Nahel has apologised to the family, but the teenager's death has revived grievances about policing and racial profiling

Protestors are calling for major reforms to the police. 

“We are one of the very few countries in Europe that doesn't have any democratic oversight of the police,” Paris Councillor Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu said. “We need to get more accountability of the police force.”  

The Ministry of the Interior criticised social media platforms for fuelling “online hatred” and have asked platforms to remove posts calling for further violence.