"People ram-raided my home before starting a fire to torch my house, where my wife and my two young children were sleeping," Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said.
Rioters vandalized the Holocaust memorial site in Paris, known as The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, during the ongoing violent anti-police demonstrations.
“This looks like an Intifada in the heart of France,” French-Israeli lawmaker Meyer Habib said of the ongoing riots over the death of a Paris teen.
Macron postponed a state visit to Germany that was due to begin on Sunday due to the unrest, both countries said.
The riots across the French city initially started as a reaction to the murder of a 17-year-old by French police.
Police clashed with protesters in the northern city of Lille and in Toulouse in the southwest, and there was also unrest in Amiens, Dijon and the Essonne administrative department.
Cars and buildings burned while protestors faced off against police in Paris after a teenager was shot during a traffic stop.
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