Although the situation seemed slightly calmer compared to previous nights, unrest gripped several cities across the country.
Firefighters in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the young man was shot Tuesday, put out fires started by protesters, which left charred remains of vehicles littering the streets. In the neighboring suburb of Colombes, protesters overturned rubbish bins and used them to erect makeshift barricades.
At night, looters broke into a gun store and made off with some, and a man carrying a hunting rifle was later arrested, police said. In the southern port of Marseille, officers arrested nearly 90 people as groups of protesters set cars on fire and smashed shop windows to rob them.
Buildings and vehicles were also vandalized in the eastern city of Lyon, where a third of the roughly 30 arrests made were for theft, police said. Authorities reported fires in the streets after an unauthorized protest drew more than 1,000 people earlier in the night.
At about 3 a.m., Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told cable news channel BFMTV that 471 arrests had been made overnight.
The shooting death of the 17-year-old, whose first name, Nahel, has only been released, was caught on video, stoking longstanding tensions between police and youth in housing developments and neighborhoods where disadvantaged people live.
