"Agence France Presse (AFP)" said, quoting data from the Ministry of the Interior in France, that 486 people were arrested during the protests last night.
"At 3.30 am local time, the Ministry of Interior had not identified any serious incidents and reported 486 arrests across the country," the report reads.
France deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes, backed by armored vehicles, to control the riots that erupted after the killing of 17-year-old teenager Nahel, who was shot by a policeman during a traffic check in a suburb of Paris on Tuesday.
BFMTV, a French channel, said more than 1,300 cars and 234 buildings were set on fire in France overnight during the riots.
It is worth noting that last Tuesday morning, a 17-year-old teenage boy of Algerian-Moroccan origin was killed by a policeman during a road search in Nanterre after he refused to comply with a police request. After that, riots broke out in a number of French cities, which have been going on for several days.
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