"Nine people were arrested on charges of taking part in armed gathering, throwing Molotov cocktails at police and attempts to set a blaze in the city hall of Beaumont," Xinhua news agency quoted Jean-Simon Merandat, director of Val d'Oise prefecture as saying.
Merandat added that peace was restored following a second night of violent confrontation which involved 200 locals and 180 police officers in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise in north of Paris.
Fifteen cars and dozens of public garbage bins were set ablaze while petrol bombs were hurled at a nursery school and a town hall, he added.
Violence sparked on Tuesday after a 24-year-old man died while being arrested by police.
Though the investigation is underway to determine the cause of death, police said that the man suffered a heart problem while he was being taken away but the family accuses officers for hitting him during his transportation to police station, according to local reports.
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