The mayor of a Paris suburb said that rioters rammed a vehicle into his home and set the building on fire while his family slept inside as France was rocked by widespread protests for the fifth-straight day.
“At 1:30 a.m., while I was at the city hall like the past three nights, individuals rammed their car upon my residence before setting fire to it to burn my house, inside which my wife and my two young children slept,” L’Haÿ-les-Roses Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said in a statement.
Jeanbrun added that “while trying to protect the children and escape the attackers, my wife and one of my children were injured.”
He called the attack on his home an "assassination attempt."
France has seen widespread protests since the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent.
Nearly 900 people were arrested for rioting on Friday night and Saturday morning.
A Holocaust memorial in Paris was also vandalized by protestors.