The grandmother of 17-year-old Nahel M has called for calm after days of unrest in France over his fatal shooting during a routine police traffic check. Al Jazeera reports that several hundred people on Saturday rallied at Nanterre’s grand mosque, in the Paris suburbs, to express their support for the family as the teenager was buried. Then, for a fifth night in a row, rioters damaged and ransacked shops, burned cars and buses, and violently clashed with 45,000 police officers sent across the country to quell France’s worst social upheaval in years. Politicians also condemned the attack on the home of right-wing politician Vincent Jeanbrun, in which assailants rammed a burning car into his home with the aim of setting it on fire.
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