The French riots appear to be easing as the grandmother of Nahel Merzouk, the teenager killed by police last week, begged rioters to stop destroying their own communities.

“The people who are destroying: Stop. Stop. They’re using Nahel as a pretext,” explained Nadia, the grandmother. “No, they must stop destroying the shops, the schools, the buses. The mothers take the buses. We take the buses.”

During the sixth night of riots, France deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes throughout the country, CNN reported. The Interior Ministry said three police officers and gendarmes were injured and 157 people were detained overnight as violence eased. Over 2,000 people have been detained since the beginning of the riots and the average age of those detained is just 17.

“I am tired, I can’t take it anymore, I can’t sleep,” said Nadia, adding that both the policeman who shot Nahel and rioters attacking policemen should be punished.

A funeral for Nahel was held Saturday afternoon.

The inciting incident occurred when Nahel was detained in a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where he used to live. The officers claimed they were at risk of being hit by the teenager as he fled, but video later showed the officers standing to the side of the vehicle as the teenager attempted to flee.

Opening fire on escaping motorists even when the officer is not in any immediate danger was legalized by France in 2017 in the wake of a series of terrorist attacks. The New York Times reported that the law remains controversial and that officers have received limited shooting training despite the fact they must only fire in cases of “absolute necessity and in a strictly proportionate manner.”

The officer who opened fire has been placed under formal investigation for voluntary manslaughter — equivalent to charges being filed — and is being detained.

Irrespective of the shooting, the riots have drawn sharp criticism for the sheer amount of destruction and the targeting of police and citizens. Shops have been looted, buses have been stolen, and infrastructure has been destroyed. A Holocaust memorial in Nanterre was defaced.

Early Sunday morning, the home of Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of the southern Paris suburb L’Haÿ-les-Roses, was attacked in what Jeanbrun called an “assassination attempt” on his young family.

“At 1:30 a.m., while I was at the city hall like the past three nights, individuals rammed their car upon my residence before setting fire to it to burn my house, inside which my wife and my two young children slept,” said Jeanbrun as quoted by CNN.

The local prosecutor’s office has classified the incident as attempted murder and will seek to bring charges against the perpetrators.

Tourists throughout the country have been urged to proceed with caution. A group of Chinese visitors saw the windows of their bus smashed in Marseille, sustaining minor injuries.

French president Emmanuel Macron has been holding a series of meetings to assess the causes of the violence and the proper response moving forward. He met with senior ministers on Sunday evening and will meet with the mayors of 220 towns in France that have experienced violence on Tuesday.