About 500 people have been detained in France as violent protests and riots over the murder of 17-year-old Nahel shot dead by a police officer continue into the fourth night.

Protests continued until early Saturday morning despite a ban on all "large-scale events" in the country announced a day earlier, riots broke out in several cities, CNN affiliate BFM TV reports.

Violence protests continue despite French police deploying 45,000 police, special forces, armored vehicles and helicopters across France on Friday.

Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin announced that the police arrested 471 people throughout the country.