NANTERRE, France—France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots on Thursday over a deadly police shooting of a teenager during a traffic stop.
Forty thousand police officers were deployed across France—nearly four times the numbers mobilized on Wednesday.
In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets, and hurled projectiles at police following a peaceful vigil.
Protesters scrawled “Vengeance for Nahel” across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire before firefighters put it out and an elite police unit deployed an armored vehicle….