Violent clashes in Paris between baton-wielding police and protesters outraged at the police killing of a dual French-Chinese citizen in his home have seen three police officers injured and 35 protesters arrested, authorities said yesterday.Demonstrators, who were from the Asian community, gathered Monday night outside the multicultural 19th district's police station in the northeast of the French capital, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, of the Paris Prosecutor's Office. With chants of "murderers" and candles that spelled "opposition to violence" lining the road Monday night, scores of demonstrators broke down barricades, threw projectiles and set fire to a car during the brutal clashes with myriad police that lasted several hours.The crowds of protesters gathered in homage to a Chinese man killed Sunday by a police officer, angry at reports that he was shot in his home in front of his children while he was cutting up fish and didn't attack. Police said the man attacked police with scissors, adding that an inquiry had been opened. The man's family, according to media reports, denied this and some media said he was holding scissors because he had been cutting fish.China urged France to protect the safety and rights of its citizens after police in Paris killed a Chinese national, sparking a violent protest. China calls on Paris to "guarantee the safety and legal rights and interests of Chinese citizens in France and to treat the reaction of Chinese people to this incident in a rational way," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular press briefing, adding that the government had filed an official complaint over the events.After learning of the incident, China "immediately ordered its embassy in France to activate an emergency response mechanism [and] made representations with the French side, asking them to get to the bottom of the incident," she said. "Meanwhile, we hope that our citizens... in France can express their wishes and demands in a lawful and reasonable way."France is home to Europe's largest population of ethnic Chinese, a community that routinely accuses police of not doing enough to protect them against racism. Last September, 15,000 people rallied in the French capital to urge an end to violence against the Asian community after the beating to death of Chinese tailor Chaolin Zhangh called new attention to ethnic tensions in Paris suburbs. The victim's lawyer said the August 2016 attack was ethnically motivated.The latest violence comes just days after several thousand people marched in Paris against police violence, in a show of anger sparked by the alleged rape in February of a young black man with a police baton, and other police abuse. Anarchists faced off with riot police at the end of that march, and tear gas was fired. But clashes remained limited in scope and violence.The February attack on the 22-year-old man, identified only as Theo, cast a spotlight on rough policing methods in France and triggered riots in the gritty suburbs surrounding Paris. Thousands marched against police brutality after the alleged rape of a black man with a police baton.The alleged police rape of Theo in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois turned the 22-year-old into a symbol for minorities standing up to police violence.