The man died in the night from July 1 to July 2, while Marseille was engulfed in riots and pillaging.
Until the economic situation improves and more children in the suburbs don’t get a better chance at succeeding, the bitterness of this ‘Second France’’ will only continue.
"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.
A bus carrying Chinese tourists had its windows smashed by rioters in France.
“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.
The arrest followed the discovery of weapons, ammunition and materials potentially used to create explosives inside the suspect's van.
The riots were held by ultra-Orthodox Israelis in response to a variety of municipal and national policies.