Police skirmishes in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris where Nahel, 17, was tragically shot by officers, appear to be getting worse.
Various French outlets are carrying footage of a huge fire engulfing the ground floor of a building, where a bank is located and thick black smoke is billowing out.
Firefighters are on the scene at the Crédit Mutuel bank, local media reports, and they’re trying to rescue people who are understood to be in the flats above.
One reporter tells France 24 the situation has worsened in the last 10 minutes or so. “Around 200 people are here. Everyone is looking on shocked and hoping nothing awful happens,” the journalist says, adding that the fire grew “really quickly”.
We’ll bring you an image of the scene as soon as we get one.