On Saturday, several cities continued to restrict public transportation, and public events that were expected to draw crowds were canceled, including a Pride celebration in Marseille, a concert by the singer Mylène Farmer at the Stade de France outside Paris and an evening festival in Lyon.
In the southern city of Marseille, the authorities said they would deploy more resources on Saturday, including a “massive reinforcement” of riot police officers and two helicopters, after protesters set fires and looted stores overnight. The police arrested nearly 90 people there, and the city’s mayor, Benoît Payan, condemned the “acts of vandalism.”
In the eastern city of Lyon, the police said that 58 people had been arrested and that some officers had been targeted with pellet shots.
Bruno Le Maire, the French economy minister, said on Saturday that at least a dozen malls, 250 bank branches and over 200 stores had been attacked over the past few days, some of them burned and destroyed.
“These acts are inexcusable,” Mr. Le Maire said after a meeting with trade and business representatives, whom he said had shown “a lot of emotion, a lot of disarray, a lot of worries.” Insurance companies, he said, had been asked to pay out quickly to help them recover their footing.
The clashes have also reached overseas French territories, including French Guiana, where officials said that a government worker had been killed by a stray bullet during a violent protest in the South American territory.
On Friday night, France’s national soccer team — many of whom are from working-class neighborhoods — called “the brutal death” of Nahel “unacceptable” but urged those participating in the violence to stop.
In a statement shared by Kylian Mbappé, the team’s captain, the players said that they shared the feelings of anger and sadness. But, they said, “Violence solves nothing,” adding that those contributing to the destruction were hurting their own neighborhoods, cities and “places of fulfillment.”
