Celebrations in France see 780 arrests made as PSG win Champions League

[p]Thousands of people poured into the streets of Paris for the match and to revel in [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/psg/CjhkPw0k/"]PSG[/a]'s triumph in [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/arsenal-hA1Zm19f/psg-CjhkPw0k/?mid=EJZRaQ15"]the final held in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, on Saturday.[/a][/p][p]But some mobs clashed with police, around 22,000 of whom were deployed across France after unrest last year when PSG also won the competition.[/p][p]Highlighting an increased use of fireworks directed at law enforcement, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said in a press briefing 57 security forces were injured and that there had been [b]"219 participants injured in France, including eight seriously".[/b][/p][p]The Paris public prosecutor's office announced the death of a young man in his twenties after he crashed head-on into concrete blocks on a Paris ring road exit ramp on his motocross bike.[/p][p]Another young man was seriously injured in a knife attack in Paris, allegedly over a robbery, the prosecutor's office added.[/p][p]Nunez said a small number of thefts and lootings had taken place in around fifteen cities across the country, and incidents of violence were recorded in 71 municipalities.[/p][p]The 780 arrests was a 32% increase compared to the celebrations of PSG's Champions League win last year, the minister noted.[/p][embed guid="ff4105d1-57fb-44ff-923d-41c77a2033f4" url="https://x.com/LucAuffret/status/2060815701581918219" social-type="twitter" /][h2]Victory parade[/h2][p]Around 100,000 people are expected to gather for a parade including the players on Sunday afternoon on the Champs-de-Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower, before being received at the Elysee Palace by President Emmanuel Macron.[/p][p]Nunez promised "a strong law enforcement response" during the players' return celebrations and fines for "obstructing traffic" in the event of any intrusion onto the Paris ring road.[/p][p]The district mayor of Paris's 8th arrondissement - home to the famed Champs-Elysees where 20,000 people converged after PSG's victory - called for "zero gatherings" on the iconic avenue as the only way to avoid further violence.[/p][p]On Saturday night, the "Champs-Elysees avenue and its surroundings ceased to be a place of celebration and became an arena of urban guerrilla warfare", the town hall said in a statement.[/p][p][b]"Since it has become impossible to celebrate a match without descending into riots, the only common sense response is a new doctrine: 'zero gatherings',"[/b] it demanded.[/p][p]Nunez dismissed the idea saying it would "tie up almost half of the security deployment". Nearly 6,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed for security during the celebrations on Sunday.[/p]