Violence involving France’s ‘lost generation’ is result of decades of poor policies

LONDON – France is experiencing its most serious wave of street rioting in decades as large numbers of mainly young men

rampage through the country’s main cities, looting shops

in protest against the police killing of a teenager in a suburb of Paris, the capital, on Tuesday.

An average of

45,000 police officers are deployed each night,

backed by light armoured vehicles and special crack police units, to quell the violence, which has already resulted in the death of another man, who fell from a supermarket roof during an apparent burglary attempt.