France: Teen dies after collision with police car near Paris

The French government on Thursday called for calm following the death of a 16-year-old boy whose motorbike collided with a police car on a road outside Paris.
Prosecutors said they were investigating police allegations that the teenager failed to stop while riding his motocross bike along the pavement and, as he fled, hit a police vehicle at a cross section.
They also said two police officers were in custody pending a manslaughter investigation. The teenager died in hospital from injuries he sustained in the collision.
Wednesday’s crash, which occurred in Elancourt in the Yvelines department west of the capital, happened just over two months after police shot and killed a 17-year-old of North African descent at a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
That incident sparked five days of riots and looting across the country.