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45,000 security forces to be deployed in France amid ongoing riots

by Daily Sabah

France will deploy 45,000 security forces amid ongoing riots, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday, as the country is dealing with violent street protests following the shooting of a 17-year-old boy by French police.

This compares with 40,000 mobilized the previous day, as anger over the police killing of a teenager during a police stop Tuesday showed no sign of abating.

A young man died Friday after falling from the roof of a store in northwestern France during overnight protests triggered by the police shooting of a teenager, police said.

The man, around 20, crashed through the roof of a supermarket that prosecutors said had not been the target of any plundering during riots overnight Thursday to Friday, they said.

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