French President Macron urges parents to keep teens at home as government orders buses to stop at 9 p.m.

France’s Interior Ministry says it has issued instructions for the complete shutdown of all public bus and tram services before sunset as the government combats rioting triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old.

France’s Interior Ministry says it has issued instructions for the complete shutdown of all public bus and tram services before sunset as the government combats rioting triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old.

The Ministry said Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin issued the order after attending a crisis meeting on Friday led by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Mr. Darmanin instructed regional prefects who are under his command to shut down bus and tram services at 9 p.m., before it gets dark, everywhere across France, the ministry said. The Paris region had already announced such a shutdown to protect transport workers and passengers.

Mr. Darmanin also ordered a ban on the sale and carrying of powerful fireworks, which rioters have launched at police officers and buildings, as well as on the sale of canisters of gasoline, acids and other chemicals and flammable liquids, the ministry said.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and proposed restrictions on social media to quell rioting spreading across France over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver that has resulted so far in the arrests of 875 people.

After a second crisis meeting with senior ministers, Mr. Macron maintained that social media platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok played a “considerable role” in fueling copycat acts of violence during this week's unrest.

Mr. Macron said his government would work with technology companies to establish procedures for “the removal of the most sensitive content.” He did not specify the content he had in mind but said, “I expect a spirit of responsibility from these platforms.”