The Foreign Ministry held an urgent meeting with officials of the French embassy in Beijing on Tuesday over the death of a Chinese man in Paris, and called for Chinese people in France who express their demands to do so in a reasonable and legal manner.

Some Chinese clashed with French police as they went to a police station to petition over the killing of the man, who was shot dead at his home by plainclothes police on Sunday evening, the ministry confirmed.

The ministry instructed the Chinese embassy in France to request that French authorities conclude an investigation as soon as possible, ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Tuesday.