Pro-Palestinian French youths protesting against Israel's Gaza offensive clashed with police on Sunday, setting fire to cars, looting stores and attacking two synagogues in a Paris suburb.
Police, backed by a helicopter overhead, responded with teargas and shots from non-lethal guns during hours of unrest in the northern suburb of Sarcelles, home to a large Jewish community.
Scores of Jewish youths - some armed with iron bars - then encircled a synagogue to "protect" it, watched by a cordon of police.
The unrest was the second time in two days that pro-Palestinian demonstrations in France had turned violent.
Authorities banned protest marches after a riot in Paris a week ago saw pro-Palestinian youth attacking two synagogues and Jewish stores.
Also on Sunday, President Francois Hollande said that France should be home to everybody living in the country, regardless of their religion or beliefs.
France "will tolerate no act, no words that could give rise to anti-Semitism," Hollande said.
He was speaking at a ceremony for Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, who were famous for tracking down old Nazis, at which he decorated them as Grand Officer and Commander of the Legion of Honour respectively.
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