Macron says France needs to address causes of unrest prompted by police killing

He did not address what those causes are.

Police patrol past graffiti reading ‘Justice for Nahel’ as youths gather on Concorde Square during a protest in Paris (Lewis Joly/AP)

Emmanuel Macron has called for order and calm – and efforts to address the roots of several days of unrest around France sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old boy.

The police officer accused of shooting Nahel Merzouk is in custody on a charge of voluntary homicide and a judge in Versailles on Thursday rejected his request for release pending further investigation.