Celebrations after PSG

Two fans died and a police officer was placed under an induced coma after celebrations around France, to mark the historic victory of the Paris Saint-Germain Champions League, it became violent on Saturday night, French authorities said on Sunday. The Champions League is the largest football award in Europe.

In addition, at least 559 people were arrested throughout the country during mass celebrations, including at least 491 in the capital, said the French Interior Ministry, according to News.

The deaths spoiled what began as a night of exuberance after PSG achieved its first title of the Champions League, in a 5-0 victory over Inter Milan. The Eiffel Tower shone in team colors, and fans celebrated during the night in celebrations that were largely peaceful but degenerated in violence in some areas.

A 17 -year -old boy was stabbed to death in the western city of Dax during a PSG street party after the final of Saturday night in Munich, said the National Police Service. A 20 -year -old man was killed in Paris when his scooter was hit by a car during the PSG celebrations, said Interior Minister’s office. The circumstances of both are being investigated.

A police officer was accidentally beaten by fireworks at a PSG meeting in Cutances in northwestern France and placed in an artificial coma due to serious eye injuries, the National Police Service said. A total of 192 people were injured by the capital, four of them seriously, said Paris Police chief.

The officer hit by fireworks was among the “many” police and firefighters of France who suffered wounds while intervening to restore order in the celebrations of the Champions League that went wrong, said the French National Police.

The team is expected to return to a great victory parade in the fields-Elysées on Sunday afternoon, with up to 110,000 people allowed along the iconic wooded avenue to see the victorious players.

Later, the team will join fans at the home stadium of PSG, the Parc Des Princes, on the western edge of the city, for a concert and a light show and an official presentation of the champions League trophy.

A wide strip of the center of Paris closed to traffic for exceptional day. Security measures are also affecting the development of the France Open near.

Thousands of police officers are being deployed to maintain order, and will use similar tactics as they did on Saturday night, said Paris Chief Laurent Núñez, to journalists. AP reporters saw tear gas used near the stadium and water cannons used near the triumph arc to disperse noisy crowds.

In addition to the injuries and arrests, Núñez said that four stores were looted during the night. Firefighters were so busy extinguishing garbage fires in the middle of the celebrations and dealing with other emergencies that the direct fire line was saturated.

At 2 in the morning on Sunday, a total of 294 arrests had been made, including 30 people who broke into a shoe store in the fields-Elysées. Two cars lit near Princes, the police added.

In the place of the Bastille, there were cheerful scenes while the fans climbed to the base of the famous column, singing, dancing and leaving flares, while those around were joined.

At one time, the motorcycles accelerated their engines aloud and the crowd chewed while they did it in the column. There was no police near and, at 1 in the morning, the atmosphere was optimistic without tensions and much singing.

Núñez blamed the dispersed problems to “thousands of people who committed acts of violence” instead of seeing the game. He observed similar disturbances outside the previous celebrations in the capital, as after the victory of the French World Cup in 2018.

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