PARIS (Reuters) - French police said on Thursday they had come under attack from youths wielding a handgun, flares and petrol bombs during clashes this week in the low-income housing estate of Tarterets in a suburb of Paris.
The latest outbreak of trouble in the deprived high-rise suburbs ("banlieus") that ring Paris came as President Emmanuel Macron's administration aims to show it can tackle violent crime and the threat of Islamist attacks as the 2022 election nears.
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