Paris unrest following PSG’s Champions League victory over Inter leaves two dead and hundreds arrested

It was a difficult night in Paris one night after PSG won their first Champions League trophy and Dominated Inter 5-0 in Munich. After the last whistle, the festivals started in Paris, but unfortunately parties were in Chaos and two people died and hundreds were arrested. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 491 people were arrested in the capital while fans gathered on the street, and in particular on the Champs-Elysees Avenue, where there were collisions with officers. A total of 559 people were arrested throughout the country. Officers also reported two dead, a man who was hit by a car while driving on a scooter in Paris and a 17-year-old stabbed during the celebrations in the southwestern city of Dax, although the office of the public prosecutor has stated that it is not yet clear if the episode of Violence was related to Champions League parties.

AFP journalists also reported that the police used water cannons to prevent people from reaching the Arc de Triomphe.

“Recovery boosts on the Champs-Elysees wanted to create incidents and came into contact with the police repeatedly by throwing large fireworks and other objects,” the police said in a statement. In Grenoble, in Southeast Frankrijk, a car walked in fans, causing four people to be wounded, two of them in serious circumstances, all from the same family according to a police report, although the driver was handed over to the police and he is currently being arrested.

The majority of the PSG fans celebrated peacefully when they gathered in the streets of the capital, but the police reported collisions near both Champs-Elysees Avenue and close to the PSG’s Parc de Princes Stadium, where 48,000 people looked at the side of Luis enrique how the Trophee De Trofee lifted for the first time.