Rioters in France drove a car into a suburban mayor\u2019s home before setting it on fire while his wife and two daughters slept inside as violence continued in the country early Sunday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vincent Jeanbrun \u2014 the mayor of south Paris suburb, L\u2019Ha\u00ff-les-Roses \u2014 was at a town hall when rioters attacked his home, but his wife and two young children were chased out by the mob, The Telegraph reported<\/a>. The local prosecutor called the attack on the mayor\u2019s home and family an \u201cassassination attempt,\u201d which came during the latest round of riots that have rocked the country in the wake of police shooting a 17-year-old Algerian Muslim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLast night a milestone was reached in horror and disgrace,\u201d Jeanbrun said<\/a>. \u201cMy wife and one of my children were injured. It was an attempted murder of unspeakable cowardice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rioters allegedly chased Jeanbrun\u2019s wife, Melanie Nowak, and her two children, ages 5 and 7, into the backyard while shooting mortar fireworks at them. Nowak eventually got her children over a wall and into their neighbor\u2019s yard, but she fractured her leg while trying to escape, and one of her children was also injured. Jeanbrun said his wife is recovering in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n France Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin vowed to bring justice for the \u201cvictims of a cowardly and terrible attack.\u201d Authorities found a plastic bottle that contained fire accelerant at the scene, and police have launched an investigation into attempted murder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAn investigation for attempted murder has been opened and significant resources of the judicial police are mobilized. The perpetrators of these facts will answer for their heinous acts,\u201d Darmanin tweeted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the weekend, riots were reported<\/a> from Paris \u2014 where a dozen buses were burned and store windows were smashed along the rue de Rivoli \u2014 all the way to Roubaix in the north and Marseille in the south as well as Reims and Lyon. In Drancy, a Paris suburb, a shopping mall was burned; and in Marseilles, the country\u2019s largest library was burned. The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics in Seine-Saint-Denis was set on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 700 people were arrested Saturday night throughout the country, according to The Telegraph, which Darmanin called a \u201ccalmer night.\u201d France deployed 45,000 police to counter the rioting, but that didn\u2019t stop mobs from setting more than 800 fires throughout the night Saturday, the BBC\u00a0reported<\/a>. Jeanbrun has called for the French government to declare a state of emergency, which would give authorities more power to arrest suspects and implement curfews, but President Emmanuel Macron has so far\u00a0declined<\/a>\u00a0to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n