French President Emmanuel Macron has called on parents to keep child rioters off the streets, adding that about a third of the 875 people arrested overnight for rioting were “young, or very young”.

“It’s the responsibility of parents to keep them at home,” he told reporters after chairing a crisis security meeting. “It’s not the state’s job to act in their place,” he added, urging social media companies to remove the “most sensitive” content related to the rioting.

Macron also said that additional security forces would be deployed to contain nationwide unrest in the wake of a teen’s killing by police.