Vincent Jeanbrun

Crowds gathered at town halls across France Monday to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of violence touched off by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in suburban Paris.

The grandmother of the French teenager whose killing by police sparked riots called for calm Sunday, as the home of the mayor of a Paris suburb was attacked with a burning car in a new eruption of violence.

Protesters crashed a car into the home of the mayor of a southern Paris suburb. The mayor's wife and one of his children were injured in the impact. He said that after hitting the car, the attackers also set it on fire.