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The demonstrators from Paris’s Asian community grouped in front of the 19th arrondissement police station at 10pm GMT (before 9pm local time) before they began to unleash a flurry of attacks against officers. Three people have been arrested after a police source told Le Parisian, three officers have been “slightly injured by jets of projectiles”. Shaoyo Liu, 56, was killed by anti-crime police after they were called to his family home in the wake of a family disagreement.

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Shocking images as Paris erupts in violence Wed, March 29, 2017 Police in Paris are struggling to cope with the fall out from a plague of riots which have kicked off in the city’s northern suburbs. Play slideshow Twitter 1 of 43 Violent riots in Paris after police kill Chinese father of four

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The police smashed the door, the shot was gone and my father found himself on the ground Children of Shaoyo Liu

According to the police, Mr Liu was killed because Mr Liu rushed to assault one of the officers “as soon as the door was opened”, so another officer opened fire on the father of five. The policeman who was the victim of the knife attack was taken to hospital straight after the incident. However, the family insists that their father had scissors to cut fish up that he was cooking.

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