Rioters ram-raided the home of a Paris suburb mayor, set the car alight, and launched fireworks at his wife and young children during a fifth night of nationwide riots.
Vincent Jeanbrun, 39, the center-right mayor of the southern suburb of L’Hay-les-Roses, was at the town hall when his house was attacked with his wife Melanie and children asleep inside.
The attackers used a car to ram through the gates of their home before setting the vehicle on fire so that the blaze would spread to the house, the mayor said in a statement.
Then when his wife, Melanie Nowak, tried to flee with the children, aged five and seven, they were attacked with firework rockets. Nowak suffered a broken leg. One of the children was also injured.
Mayor Jeanbrun called it “a murder attempt of unspeakable cowardice”.
