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A wave of street violence injured more than 200 people in Paris, even as the city hailed Paris Saint-Germain’s second consecutive Champions League triumph, the interior ministry announced Sunday.
Fans gathered at the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower on Sunday afternoon to cheer for the players during a victory parade, celebrating PSG’s dramatic penalty shootout win over Arsenal in Budapest.
However, heavy rioting overnight partly overshadowed the achievement, resulting in the injury of 57 police officers and the arrest of more than 400 people nationwide.
Rioters destroyed Paris shopfronts, torched cars, and burnt rental bike stands while also vandalising public buildings in provincial towns like Orleans.
Paris police reported brief clashes outside a central Paris station, and the prosecutor’s office confirmed that one young man died in a motorcycle accident during the chaos.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez deployed over 20,000 officers to manage the situation and maintained that security forces kept the violence under control.
The unrest has reignited France’s fierce political debate over law and order ahead of next year’s presidential election.
Far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen condemned the riots, arguing that such violence only happens in France after a football victory.
Meanwhile, centre-left politician Raphael Glucksmann blamed deep social divisions, describing French society as a brutal pressure cooker ready to explode, while emphasising that the rioters do not represent actual football fans.
