Some 491 had been arrested in Paris throughout post-match celebrations after Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League win.
Two individuals died and tons of had been arrested in France in a single day as soccer followers celebrated Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) beautiful UEFA Champions League last victory, the Ministry of the Inside mentioned.
The epicentre of the euphoria was in Paris, which was a theatre of automobile horns, cheers, singing within the streets and fireworks all through the evening following PSG’s 5-0 overcome Inter Milan in Munich.
The Inside Ministry mentioned on Sunday that 491 individuals had been arrested within the capital after crowds converged on the Champs-Elysees avenue and clashes broke out with officers.
Throughout France, a complete of 559 individuals had been arrested, it added.
The authorities reported two deaths amid celebrations. A person driving a scooter in Paris died after being hit by a automobile within the metropolis’s southern fifteenth arrondissement, situated about 2km (1.2 miles) from the Champs-Elysees.
Within the southwestern city of Dax, a 17-year-old was fatally stabbed at a gathering feting the PSG victory, prosecutors mentioned. His dying occurred shortly after the match and “throughout the celebrations”, however the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned it didn’t know whether or not it was associated to the Champions League last. It added that the perpetrator was “on the run”.
The PSG group had been to carry a victory parade on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday, with tens of 1000’s of supporters anticipated to assemble to catch a glimpse of their returning heroes.
Paris Saint-Germain supporters maintain flares on a avenue in Paris, early on June 1, 2025, following their group’s 5-0 victory over Inter Milan within the UEFA Champions League last in Munich, Germany (Lou Benoist/AFP)
In a single day celebrations flip to violence
In a single day, although, AFP journalists noticed police on the famed thoroughfare utilizing water cannon to cease a crowd reaching the Arc de Triomphe that sits on the high of the Champs-Elysees.
“Troublemakers on the Champs-Elysees had been trying to create incidents and repeatedly got here into contact with police by throwing giant fireworks and different objects,” police mentioned in an announcement.
Elsewhere, police mentioned a automobile careered into followers celebrating PSG’s win in Grenoble in southeastern France, leaving 4 individuals injured, two of them critically. All of these damage had been from the identical household, police mentioned.
The motive force handed himself in to the police and was positioned below arrest. A supply near the investigation mentioned it was believed the motive force had not acted deliberately.
The general public prosecutor’s workplace mentioned the motive force had examined adverse for alcohol and medicines.
Nearly all of followers celebrated peacefully, however police in Paris mentioned scuffles broke out close to the Champs-Elysees avenue, and round PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium, the place 48,000 individuals had watched the 5-0 win on big screens.
Most of these arrested within the capital had been suspected of illegally possessing fireworks and inflicting dysfunction, police mentioned.
The PSG victory meant the membership received the largest prize in European membership soccer for the primary time of their historical past.
PSG supporter Clement, 20, mentioned: “It’s so good and so deserved! Now we have a music that talks about our struggles, and it hasn’t all the time been simple.
“However we received our religion again this yr with a group with out stars. They’re 11 guys who play for one another.”
French President Emmanuel Macron’s workplace mentioned he would host the victorious gamers on Sunday to congratulate them.
In a message on X, Macron hailed a “day of glory for PSG”.
A complete of 11.5 million individuals tuned in throughout France to observe the match, in accordance with figures given by the Mediametrie audience-measurement firm and one of many broadcasters, Canal+.
Anti-riot police detain an individual on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, on Could 31, 2025, as PSG supporters rejoice (Lou Benoist/AFP)
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