Rioting arrests drop in France after teenager's funeral

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (second right) and other officials meet with municipal police, after rioters rammed a vehicle into the house of L'Hay-les-Roses mayor, at the City Hall in L'Hay-les-Roses, south of Paris, July 2, 2023. [Reuters]

Rioting in France to protest the police shooting death of an Arab teenager, diminished Saturday night following the youth's funeral earlier in the day.

The government deployed about 45,000 police onto the streets to try to control unrest after the funeral of Nahel, a 17-year-old with Algerian and Moroccan parents, who was shot during a traffic stop Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.