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Filming of a John Travolta movie partly set in one of Paris’s toughest estates was suspended after 10 cars set to be used in the film were torched, the production company said today.

Riot police were out in force in a troubled suburb of Paris early today, a day after youths hurled petrol bombs at buildings, pelted officers and took to the streets with baseball bats.

FRENCH youths rioted in a Paris suburb for the fifth night running early yesterday, raising fresh questions about Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s “zero tolerance” policy toward the violence.