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French police arrested a 15-year-old rioter after he used a makeshift flame-thrower to burn a woman's face.
The attack was captured on video as thousands of youngsters went on a rampage.
The pupil – who has not been named – could now face charges of 'intentional violence' aggravated by 'the use of a weapon, concealing his face and attacking in a gang'.
In footage taken in Marseille, the victim was shoved against a bus stop after she called for an end to the vandalism. But as she recovers, a hooded individual walks forward and, using an aerosol can and a lighter, launches a burst of flame at her.
She received medical treatment at the scene and it was reported in Le Parisien that she had suffered first-degree burns.
A police spokesman said: 'The suspect was arrested and taken into police custody.'
Meanwhile in Bordeaux, a firefighter was filmed catching fire while attempting to put out a fire caused by the protesters.
They are the latest shocking scenes during a week of rioting across France where masses of public property, from schools to bus stops, have been set on fire and teachers 'doused in petrol'.
Rioter blasts woman in the face with a flamethrower and off-duty cop is kicked unconscious as French student riots descend into anarchy
The attack was captured on video as thousands of youngsters went on rampages
French CRS riot police stand in position amid clashes during a riot by high school students outside the Lycee Deodat-de-Severac high school as part of nationwide riots
Videos posted online have shown riot police using teargas and baton charges to fight back. There were almost 4,000 arrests over Thursday and Friday alone with at least 500 colleges caught up in the uprising.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez condemned 'an escalation of violence' adding that most of those taken into custody for a range of public order offences were aged between 15 and 18.
President Emmanuel Macron has accused extremists of stirring up the trouble. Calling for calm during a speech in Madrid, he said: 'I can hear… the anxieties and anger that our youth can feel. However, none of these fears legitimise violence.'
Benoit Payan, the Leftist mayor of Marseille, said: 'Our youth is legitimately concerned about its future. It must be able to express itself.'
Mayor Bally Bagayoko, a member of La France Insoumise (LFI), takes part in a demonstration called by public sector trade unions in Paris
Left-wing mayor dances with rioters
A mayor has been accused of supporting French rioters after he was filmed laughing and dancing with them outside a blocked-off school.
Footage showed Mayor Bally Bagayoko being cheered on by pupils while flames rose from a burning bin near the building's gates behind him.
Mr Bagayoko – mayor of Paris's St Denis suburb – said 'violence can be legitimate'.
The Paris Police Prefecture has filed a complaint against him for 'incitement to commit a crime'.
Mr Bagayoko is a member of the hard-Left party France Unbowed. Other members have been seen outside blockaded buildings, with Emmanuel Macron accusing 'political leaders' of trying 'to whip up the pupils'.
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Since Monday, around 5,000 people, mostly teenagers, have been arrested nationwide and dozens injured. More than 600 police officers have also been injured.
Now the Left-wing mayor of a Parisian suburb is facing backlash after he was filmed joining student rioters.
Footage shows Bally Bagayoko, mayor of the Saint-Denis suburb, laughing and dancing outside a blocked-off school while rioters cheer him on.
In the background, flames are rising near the building's gates.
Politicians from the hard-Left party France Unbowed joined the rioters, Mr Bagayoko having said that the violence is legitimate.
Bally Bagayoko, mayor of the Saint-Denis suburb, was filmed dancing with protesters. If Obama had a brother ...
Flames surrounded Mr Bagayoko as he joined in with student rioters in France
Amid the disruption from violence and blockades, a firefighter approached a blaze in Bordeaux to put it out – but was then set alight by the object
A separate video showed a firefighter being set alight when he tried to put out a fire caused by rioters.
Social media footage shows an object in flames on a street in Bordeaux during the recent riots.
But as the firefighter approached the item to put out the fire, the flames suddenly spread up his leg and set him alight.
Paris police chief Patrice Faure said the student riots were now 'out of control'.
n Saint-Denis, a large suburb north of Paris, students stood outside the gates of their school near a fire that had been set as police looked on, while in Lyon and Lille television images showed people throwing projectiles at lines of police officers.
Student rioters set rubbish bins on fire and throw them forwards in a blockade near Place de la Nation in Paris
Firefighters work to extinguish flames rising from burning barricades put up by high school students in Nancy, north-eastern France
High school students wear masks and hoodies near the Lycee Deodat-de-Severac school in Toulouse, south-western France
Police officers stand guard at a riot in Paris
Interior minister Laurent Nunez said that there were seven incidents in which people threw hydrochloric acid at law enforcement officers.
Police arrested a protester who threatened to burn down the Elysee Palace in Paris.
Hard-Left activist Ritchy Thibault has called on students to burn down the Elysee and to start a revolution.
'We're going to attack every police station in this country,' he told a crowd in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. 'Tomorrow, we're going to set the Elysee Palace on fire.'
Francois Grosdidier, mayor of the French city of Metz, stands in front of burned vehicles belonging to staff members at the Francois Rabelais secondary school
French police officers face rioters near the Kerichen high school in Brest, western France
Police officers detain rioters in Nancy, France, amid clashes during school riots
A protester is detained by police in Nancy
Students pose in front of burning rubbish bins near the Lycee Deodat-de-Severac school in Toulouse, south-western France
A youngster kicks a burning bin as a crowd of students watches on near the Louis Pasteur middle school in Strasbourg, eastern France
French Gendarmes run towards a high school student that pointed a firework launcher at them as rioting students demonstrate in the streets of Bordeaux, south-western France
Rioting students throw items on to burning bins in Lille, northern France
Students were seen gathering around a large bonfire that had been set in front of the Gaston-Berger High School in Lille
The gate of Victor Hugo High School in Caen was set alight
A rioter uses a fireworks mortar during clashes between high school students and riot policemen outside the Gustave Eiffel high school
