RIOTS broke out on the streets of Paris as police and residents clashed injuring six officers in the gunfire after a man died in police custody. Violent scenes gripped the Val d’Oise area north of the French capital overnight with reports of several explosions and fires as more than 100 residents rallied against the police. Six police officers were injured by hunting weapons in the brawl, local officials confirmed. Residents shouted ‘murderer’ at officers in riot gear as 150 police attempted to calm the chaos. The violence erupted after a 24-year-old man named Adama by La Parisien was arrested in connection with an extortion case. According to local media he died on Tuesday afternoon in police custody after suffering a heart attack in Beaumont. Jean-Simon Merandat, director of the Val d’Oise prefect’s office, said: ‘About a hundred individuals … came looking for the law enforcement forces after a person died at the premises of the gendarmerie in Beaumont town.’

Source: express.co.uk