The France president faces a major challenge to his leadership, with 2,400 people being arrested following protests against the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb on Tuesday.
Sunday 2 July 2023 23:14, UK
That's all for our coverage of the ongoing protests in cities across France for this evening.
Emmanuel Macron met ministers for crisis talks after five nights of riots.
See below for a recap of today's events.
Pictures captured by Sky News in Marseille show a relatively calm situation at present.
There is still a strong police presence, with people's belongings being checked.
Last night, police fired teargas and fought street battles with youths around the city centre.
Our correspondent Siobhan Robbins, who is there, says "deep-rooted frustrations have bubbled over into looting and vandalism".
These pictures of French President Emmanuel Macron and senior colleagues were taken at the French interior ministry's emergency crisis centre in Paris.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is to his right.
She visited the Paris suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses on Sunday, where a burning car was used to attack the home of local mayor Vincent Jeanbrun.
Emmanuel Macron was photographed as he began an important security meeting with three senior ministers.
Five consecutive days of protests and looting have left him scrambling for a solution.
We will bring you updates from the gathering as soon as we have them.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is "convinced" that his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, will find a way to bring the riots to an end.
"I don't expect France to become unstable, even if the pictures are of course very distressing," Mr Scholz told ARD television.
Mr Macron was due to begin a state visit to Germany this evening.
"I very much understand the French president's decision to be in the country now," Mr Scholz added.
"I would have done exactly the same. And so we wish him the best in mastering what is no small challenge.
"I hope very much, and I am convinced, that the French president will find ways for this situation to improve quickly.
"We cannot have acts of violence being committed, and at the same time it's always the case that we must do everything so that cohesion in our societies works well."
As French president Emmanuel Macron prepares to hold a security meeting following five days of rioting in France, we will bring you live updates through the evening.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said 45,000 police and gendarmes remain mobilised on Sunday for the third consecutive night.
Below are several posts with the latest on the still-developing story - and an eyewitness report from Marseille.
The grandmother of the French teenager shot by police has called for rioters to "stop" and says her "heart is in pain".
Nadia said rioters were using the death of her 17-year-old grandson Nahel Merzouk, who was shot by police during a traffic stop on Tuesday, as "an excuse".
She told French broadcaster BFM TV: "Fortunately the police are here. The people who are destroying, I tell them to 'stop'. They are using Nahel as an excuse.
"They need to stop breaking the windows, the buses, the schools. We want things to calm down. We don't want them to destroy.
"I am tired, I can't take it anymore, I can't sleep. I turned off the TV, I turned everything off. I don't want to listen to this anymore."
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President Emmanuel Macron is due to hold a security meeting with French prime minister Elisabeth Borne, interior minister Gerald Darmanin and justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti this evening.
Thousands of people have been arrested in five nights of protests against the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk in Nanterre on the outskirts of Paris.
The unrest has forced Mr Macron to delay what would have been the first state visit to Germany by a French president for 23 years, starting on Sunday evening.
He has been criticised for attending an Elton John concert since the unrest began.
Anger, resentment, grief - that is the message from Marseille.
In France's second city, deep-rooted frustrations have bubbled over into looting and vandalism.
Kaouther Ben Mohamed fights for better rights for the poor. She says the destruction here is sad but it's not surprising given the frustration many residents feel.
"There's a double discrimination in Marseille compared to the rest of France," she says.
"The first is the colour of your skin and your surname. The second is where you live. For people who are called Sofiane or Mohammed, it's more difficult living in a working-class area, having access to schools, accommodation and getting a job."
Poverty, racism and drugs mean clashes with police aren't rare here, but this widespread looting is an escalation and a worrying sign.
The damage is a step-up because the violence has penetrated the heart of the city rather than being contained in the poor estates on the edges and that speaks to the level of anger people are feeling.
"Nahel's death was the final straw for people in the working-class areas and for young people because there are so many other Nahels, there's so much other police violence," Kaouther explains.
And so, this week, the crowds returned to the streets, undeterred by the tear gas and rubber bullets.
We watched as some defiantly taunted the police, holding glowing flares aloft.
On the sidelines, we saw young people lighting fires, burning whatever they could find or ripping up road signs as makeshift weapons.
While many seemed motivated just to make trouble, others had come with a message like Hamza, who says: "The police in France is racist."
He says the violence is a backlash following years of police racism and discrimination.
"There's lots of looting here in France, because what do they [the police] do? They shoot at us and people loot for revenge," he told me.
"When you live in a district in France, they hit you. It's the same all the time... They hit you, they rob everything you have and then they throw you out. It's all the same if you're Arab, black, or Chinese. It's always the same," he said.
On Friday, the UN rights office called on France to address racism in the police.
"This is a moment for the country to seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement", spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said.
France rejected the accusation.
Just after we spoke to Hamza, we watched as police dragged a protestor roughly to the floor and arrested him in front of a furious crowd.
Scenes like this won't help build trust but neither will a video which emerged reportedly showing rioters looting about 20 cars.
The shooting of a teenager sparked the unrest in Marseille.
Now, long held divisions continue to fuel it.
A burning car was used to attack the home of a mayor during a fifth night of rioting by protesters sparked by the police killing of a teenager in France.
Vincent Jeanbrun, who runs the Paris suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses, claimed the incident was an "assassination attempt" and authorities said they were treating it as attempted murder.
Mr Jeanbrun, who was not at home at the time, said his property was "ram-raided" and set alight while his wife and two children, aged five and seven, were asleep. She and one of the youngsters were injured as they fled the building through the back garden.
The mayor, who had been at the town hall, claimed the perpetrators started a fire "to torch my house".
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