VICTORY PARADE
The PSG staff had been to carry a victory parade on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday, with tens of 1000’s of supporters anticipated to assemble to catch a glimpse of their returning heroes.
In a single day, AFP journalists noticed police on the famed thoroughfare utilizing a water cannon to cease a crowd reaching the Arc de Triomphe, which sits on the prime of the Champs-Élysées.
Police, in a press release, mentioned “troublemakers” clashed with officers “by throwing giant fireworks and different objects”. One policeman was in an induced coma after being hit within the eye by a firework within the Normandy area, prosecutors mentioned.
Elsewhere, police mentioned a automobile careered into followers celebrating PSG’s win in Grenoble in southeastern France, leaving 4 folks injured, two of them significantly. All of these damage had been from the identical household, police mentioned.
The motive force handed himself in to the police and was positioned beneath 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 unfavorable for alcohol and medicines.
The vast majority of followers celebrated peacefully, however police in Paris mentioned scuffles broke out close to the Champs-Élysées avenue, and round PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium, the place 48,000 had watched the match on large 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.
One 20-year-old PSG supporter, Clement, mentioned: “It is so good and so deserved! Now we have a track that talks about our struggles and it hasn’t at all times been straightforward.”
“However we received our religion again this yr with a staff 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”.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo hailed it as a “historic” win.
A complete of 11.5 million folks tuned in throughout France to observe the match, in keeping with figures given by the Mediametrie audience-measurement firm and one of many broadcasters, Canal+.
