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Riot police officers detain a youth during clashes in Lyon, central France. Image Credit: AP

Paris: Rioters are rampaging through a Paris suburb, breaking shop windows and hurling stones at police.

Youths wearing hoods and scarves on their faces are darting through the streets of Nanterre near a high school that has seen clashes in recent days.

Riot police are deployed around the area, still littered with broken glass and burned tires from past clashes.

The violence is on the margins of nationwide strikes and protests over the government's plan to raise the retirement age.

The interior minister threatened on Wednesday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests.