French police have taken 22 youths into custody for questioning after three nights of riots in a north-eastern suburb of Paris, officials said on Sunday.
Overnight, groups of young people threw bottles, rocks and set more than a dozen cars ablaze. Nobody was hurt but nine people were detained by police. Thirteen youths were taken into custody on Friday night, police and local officials said. The violence began three days ago among residents of Clichy-Sous-Bois over the deaths of two teenagers who were electrocuted while fleeing police.
"There were some cars ablaze and some arrests, but nothing like what we saw in the two previous nights," a police spokesman said, noting the rioting did not last as long.
On Friday night, youths set garbage bins and cars ablaze and also fired a shot at police in the suburb, where many of the 28,000 residents are immigrants, mainly from Africa.
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