Nine people have been arrested over a firework attack on a police station near Paris, the French capital's top police official said Monday, March 18. Videos posted on social media showed groups of people firing a barrage of fireworks at the building's facade.

"Around 50 people attacked the police station in La Courneuve, mostly with firework mortar shots" late Sunday, Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez told broadcaster TF1. La Courneuve lies in Paris's northern suburbs, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department that hosts Olympic venues including the flagship Stade de France stadium.

The Sunday evening attack in the northern suburb of La Courneuve came four days after a teenager riding a moped was killed in a car chase with police. "We can tie this attack to the death" of the 18-year-old killed on Wednesday, named only as Wanys R., Nuñez said. "The young people clearly came from the neighborhood" where Wanys lived, he added.

Nuñez said the arrested suspects included seven adults aged 18-21 and two minors. Two police officers were "slightly hurt," he added. Nunez said police reinforcements would be deployed in the area around midday on Monday.

Wanys R. was being chased by police Wednesday after refusing to stop for a check. A video widely shared online showed how his scooter was struck by a police car, killing him and injuring his passenger. The lawyer representing Wanys's family on Friday accused the police of hitting him on purpose, while the officers' own representative insisted it was an accident.