VICTORY PARADE
The PSG group have been to carry a victory parade on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday, with tens of hundreds 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 an announcement, mentioned “troublemakers” clashed with officers “by throwing massive 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 have been from the identical household, police mentioned.
The motive force handed himself in to the police and was positioned below arrest. A supply near the investigation mentioned it was believed the driving force had not acted deliberately. The general public prosecutor’s workplace mentioned the driving force had examined detrimental 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 big screens.
Most of these arrested within the capital have been suspected of illegally possessing fireworks and inflicting dysfunction, police mentioned.
The PSG victory meant the membership gained 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! We now have a tune that talks about our struggles and it hasn’t at all times been simple.”
“However we bought our religion again this 12 months with a group 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 look at the match, in line with figures given by the Mediametrie audience-measurement firm and one of many broadcasters, Canal+.
