Killing leads to French riot and arrests
Monday 30 May 2005, 15:36 Makka Time, 12:36 GMT
Tensions remain high in the city
French police have arrested 39 people after a night of violence in the southern city of Perpignan, following the second killing of a Moroccan in just over a week.
Officials said on Monday eight people, including a riot policeman, were injured, about 50 cars were damaged or set alight and some shops were damaged in the town centre in Sunday night's rioting.
Angry young members of the city's North African community were reacting to the fatal shooting of a man of Moroccan origin on Sunday evening, police said.
"It's a completely irrational flaring up of violence," Henri Castets, director of public security, said on Monday.
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