VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France -- Youths in Paris suburbs and the city of Toulouse torched cars and set rubbish ablaze in fresh urban violence in France last night.
With 1,000 police officers out in force, the situation remained tense.
But there were only isolated incidents of vandalism and officials reported no major clashes between youths and police in contrast to Monday night, when 80 officers were injured as rioters pelted them with stones and gasoline bombs.
"[The situation] is much calmer than in previous nights but you can feel all this remains fragile," Prime Minister Francois Fillon said after meeting officials in the northern Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, where unrest erupted Sunday.
The government pledged to take a firm line against rioters who attacked police. Officers in riot gear and dozens of police vans lined the main street of Villiers-le-Bel, as a helicopter circled above.
Around a dozen cars were set ablaze in suburbs in Paris.
In Toulouse in the south vandals torched about 20 cars, police said. They also tried to set fire to a library in a working-class district of the city, but police said they stepped in before there was any real damage.
The urban unrest was triggered by the deaths of two youths who were on a stolen moped that collided with a police car.