PARIS—More than 1,300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting as family and friends of Nahel M, whose shooting by police sparked the unrest, gathered on Saturday for the teenager’s funeral in the Paris suburb where he died. The government deployed 45,000 police and several armoured vehicles overnight to tackle the…

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…

PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron battled to contain a mounting crisis on Thursday after riots spread across France overnight, set off by the police shooting of a teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. Police made 180 arrests during a second night of unrest, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, as public…