{"id":29537,"date":"2026-06-02T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/29537\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:30:09","slug":"paris-police-arrest-over-100-people-after-psg-wins-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/29537\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris police arrest over 100 people after PSG wins Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations from Paris Saint-Germain fans following their <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/30\/sports\/psg-defeats-arsenal-in-shootout-to-seal-second-straight-champions-league-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second straight Champions League title win<\/a> got out of hand quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Paris police deployed thousands of police officers throughout the city in an attempt to control crowds after PSG\u2019s shootout victory over Arsenal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had to use tear gas while arresting over 130 people as of 11 p.m. local time at hot spots throughout the French city, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/30\/paris-police-arrest-paris-saint-germain-fans-celebrate-champions-league-win-over-arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Guardian reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A man rides a bicycle past a burning barricade in Paris on May 30, 2026. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur responsibility is to guarantee everyone a festive celebration that is calm and fully secure,\u201d a police spokesperson told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Six vehicles and two storefronts were damaged amid all of the chaos, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions flared outside of PSG\u2019s Parc de Princes stadium in western\u00a0Paris, where more than 40,000 fans watched the championship match on giant screens.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of fans marched near the Arc de Triomphe, with some wild fans aiming fireworks at the police who then responded with tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke could be seen rising throughout multiple areas where the clashes occurred, with the main ring surrounding Paris being closed off by a crowd before police dispersed it, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the public holds an object to a burning bicycle on the Avenue de la Grande Armee. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A PSG supporter uses a fire extinguisher to put out a street barricade fire near the Arc de Triomphe. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, Minister of the Interior of France, told The Guardian that authorities had a \u201cvery robust, very solid system in place\u201d to thwart the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Some 22,000 police officers were deployed to maintain order in the French capital and avoid a repeat of last year, where two died and nearly 200 were injured because of riots following PSG\u2019s first Champions League title victory over Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>PSG became back-to-back European champions defeating Arsenal 4-3 on penalties after the match ended in a 1-1 tie after extra time. <\/p>\n<p>Smoke could be seen rising throughout multiple areas. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Some 22,000 police officers were deployed to maintain order. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible,\u201d captain Marquinhos told reporters. \u201cFrom the very first day of this season, the coach said it\u2019s hard to win, and winning twice is even more difficult. So we all had to get back to work. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the mentality.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/30\/sports\/psg-defeats-arsenal-in-shootout-to-seal-second-straight-champions-league-title\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrations from Paris Saint-Germain fans following their second straight Champions League title win got out of hand quickly.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7754,30,333,122,9849,193,7,90],"class_list":["post-29537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-paris","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-police","tag-riots","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537","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=29537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}