By Antony Paone and Stephanie Lecoq PARIS (Reuters) - Protesters shot fireworks at police and set cars ablaze in the working class Paris suburb of Nanterre on Wednesday, in a second night of unrest following the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop there. The use of lethal force by officers against the teenager, who was of North African origin, has fed into a deep-rooted perception of police brutality in the ethnically diverse suburbs of France's biggest cities. Shortly before midnight, a trail of overturned vehicles burned as fireworks fizzed at police lines on Nanterre's...
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