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Greater than 400 people were arrested overnight after widespread unrest erupted following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Arsenal within the Champions League final.
Tens of 1000’s of fans of the French club celebrated their team’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over Mikel Arteta’s Gunners yesterday.
Sadly, things turned nasty quickly with some fans setting off flares and fireworks, while e-bikes were seen being torched in Paris.
Rioters also damaged six vehicles, two businesses and a bus shelter in violence that took place across the EU country, in response to French police.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez branded the unrest ‘absolutely unacceptable’ as he revealed that seven officers had been injured within the violence.
As order was restored today, police said they’d made 416 arrests, including 280 people in Paris.
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The clashes were a tragic repeat of last 12 months’s violence when supporters of the French team caused chaos after winning the identical trophy.
Authorities had braced themselves prematurely and 1000’s of law enforcement officials were deployed across France to curb any unrest.
Nuñez said they’d a ‘very robust, very solid system in place’.
Before the violence erupted overnight, there had been clashes between police and PSG supporters on the club’s Parc des Princes, where the club had erected giant screens for them to look at the ultimate, which took place in Budapest.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen wrote on X: ‘Only in France does a football club’s victory spark riots.
“Only in France does everyone feel compelled to lock themselves of their homes on the evening of a victory to avoid being confronted with violence.’
Players are on account of participate in a victory parade this afternoon, which incorporates touring the Champ-de-Mars next to the Eiffel Tower and a reception held by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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