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900 arrested in Champions League final riots

French authorities announced Monday that 890 people were arrested across the country when overnight celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League victory over Arsenal were marred by violent clashes, and a road accident that killed a young man.

Axar.az reports, citing France 24, thousands of people poured into the streets of Paris for the match and to revel in PSG's triumph in the final held in the Hungarian capital Budapest late Saturday.

Highlighting an increased use of fireworks directed at law enforcement, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said in a press briefing Sunday that 57 security forces were injured and that there had been 219 participants injured in France, including eight seriously.

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.

Another young man was seriously injured in a knife attack in Paris allegedly over a robbery, the prosecutor's office added.

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.

The number of arrests saw a more than 45 percent increase compared to the celebrations of PSG's Champions League win last year, the minister noted.

Date
2026.06.01 / 17:00
Author
Axar.az
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