French Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said seven officers were injured in clashes across the country. He called the disorder \u201cabsolutely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen wrote on X<\/a>: \u201cOnly in France does a football club\u2019s victory spark riots. Only in France does everyone feel compelled to lock themselves in their homes on the evening of a victory to avoid being confronted with violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse, leader of the \u00cele-de-France region<\/a>, which includes Paris, called for sanctions against those causing violence. \u201cThe brainless thugs who think they can smash everything are tarnishing the image of Paris and France!\u201d P\u00e9cresse wrote in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cWe must be able to celebrate on victory nights peacefully in Paris and the \u00cele-de-France region!\u201d<\/p>\n Similar riots took place in Paris last May after Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s victory at the previous Champions League final, resulting in more than 500 arrests and two deaths and drawing widespread political condemnation.<\/p>\n Paris Saint-Germain defeated Arsenal in a dramatic final in Budapest after a 4-3 shoot-out following a 1-1 draw after extra time, becoming the first French club to win the competition twice.<\/p>\n The team will have a victory parade at the Champ-de-Mars on Sunday afternoon before being received by French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said seven officers were injured in clashes across the country. He called the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2028,14127,36,20495,5,282,278,2645,30,353],"class_list":["post-28140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-cities","tag-competition","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-extremism","tag-france","tag-french-politics","tag-law-enforcement","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-paris","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}