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Police around France are bracing for a potential third night of unrest.

An additional 40,000 officers were made available for overnight duty, four times the numbers on hand on Wednesday.

There were reports of clashes in Nanterre, the Parisien district where the 17-year-old was killed, following a march in his honor in which around 6,000 people had participated.

French news agency AFP also cited a police source as saying that further violence was expected in the "coming nights," with "actions tageted at the forces of order and the symbols of the state." The police source was discussing an internal memo, and French newspaper Le Monde appeared to quote a police source relaying information from the same paper.

Le Monde reported that authorities expected a "generalization" of the unrest, which at first had been confined to Nanterre but which already showed signs of spreading nationwide last night.

However, just before 9 p.m. local time, reports from most major French cities remained calm, despite the heightened police presence and underlying tension.

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