26 detained as cars burn in Paris suburb clashes with police
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}French police say 26 protesters were detained during an eruption of violence against police in the Paris suburbs in which a police car was torched.
The violence in the night of Monday to Tuesday is a show of outrage in support of a young black man who authorities allege was sodomized by a police officer's baton last week during a police operation that targeted drug traffickers.
Several cars were set on fire and blazed through the night, with firefighters racing to limit the damage.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police Alliance spokesman Frederic Lagache said that one police officer narrowly escaped being burned as a protester set his vehicle on fire with a Molotov cocktail.
He said in an interview with Europe-1: "The objective is to kill cops and this is unacceptable."