Macron urges parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting across France

Police investigators examine charred buses after a third night of unrest at a depot in Aubervilliers near Paris (Michel Euler/AP)

Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France and says social media is fuelling copycat violence.

After a second crisis meeting with senior ministers, the French President said on Friday that social networks are playing a “considerable role” in the spreading unrest triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old boy.