Two people have died and hundreds have been arrested across France after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) fans celebrated the football club’s victory in the Champions League final, the French interior ministry said.
The ministry said 192 people were injured in overnight violence and more than 550 people arrested, including 490 in Paris.
In the southwest town of Dax, a 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in the chest late on Saturday evening, local media reported. A 23-year-old man who was riding a scooter in central Paris was killed after being hit by a vehicle, the prosecutor’s office said.
Flares and fireworks were set off, bus shelters smashed and cars torched amid wild celebrations as PSG won the biggest prize in European club football for the first time in their history, according to media reports.
Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez said PSG’s Champions League trophy parade will go ahead on Sunday evening, but there will be an increased police and military presence on the ground.
“The toll is lower than what we have seen in the past, but we will never get used to this kind of abuse, with people who only came to commit acts of vandalism and who did not even watch the match, and we will always have a very firm response,” Nuñez said.
“PSG supporters shouldn’t be mixed up with gangs of looters and vandals,” he added.
Twenty-two police officers and seven firefighters were injured, the interior ministry said, adding that 264 vehicles were set on fire.



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