French President Emmanuel Macron called a new government emergency meeting on Friday after a third night of violent clashes between protesters and police in cities including Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse and Lille. Forty thousand police officers were deployed in France on Thursday night – nearly four times the number mobilised on Wednesday – and some 421 people were arrested, Le Figaro newspaper said. Protests were sparked by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old on Tuesday that shocked the nation.