Some 994 people were arrested on Friday night in “less intense” urban violence, four days after the death of young Nakhel, who was killed by a police officer on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, as quoted by AFP.

A police source said that of those 994 arrests, 406 took place in Paris and the suburbs.

“79 policemen and gendarmes were injured,” the ministry added in a still preliminary report.

A total of 1,350 vehicles were set on fire, 234 buildings were burned or damaged, and 2,560 fires were reported on public roads, the same source said.

The ministry also recorded 31 attacks on police stations, 16 on municipal police stations and 11 on gendarmerie barracks.

Lyon and Marseille were the two cities worst hit by the violence, the police source added.

In Vaux-en-Velain, on the outskirts of Lyon, a rioter fired a rifle at police. Among other incidents reported at Place Beauvau, a kindergarten in Conflans-Saint-Onorine and the Restos du coeur center in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines) were damaged.

Enedis offices and vehicles were also set on fire in Nanterre, where 17-year-old Nachel was killed. An attempt was made to infiltrate the headquarters of the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCPJ) in Nanterre.

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Light armored vehicles, elite units and 45,000 mobilized: the French government on Friday committed “exceptional” resources to try to stop the cycle of violence, looting and destruction that has gripped many of the country’s cities since the death on Tuesday of a young Paris suburbian, killed by a police officer trying to escape from a checkpoint on the side of the road.

Just before the funeral of 17-year-old Nachel, scheduled for Saturday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanen announced on television that he was mobilizing the full force of the law to try to stop the violence, which has gripped France for a fourth straight night and is intensifying, spreading to new cities.