40,000 officers deployed across France amid violence after boy shot by police

Cars burn after a march for Nahel in Nanterre (Michel Euler/AP)

France’s government has vowed to restore order after two nights of violence triggered by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old, announcing it will deploy tens of thousands more officers and crack down on neighbourhoods where buildings and vehicles were torched.

Bus and rail services were shutting down early to safeguard transportation workers and passengers, a decision sure to impact thousands of travellers in the French capital and its suburbs.