{"id":149998,"date":"2025-06-01T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149998\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:30:31","slug":"psg-holds-victory-parade-in-paris-with-champions-league-trophy-after-overnight-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149998\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG holds victory parade in Paris with Champions League trophy after overnight violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Triumphant after its historic Champions League victory<\/a>, Paris Saint-Germain put on an open-top bus parade through Paris on Sunday for roaring fans, an outburst of joy overshadowed by the deaths of two people and some 200 injuries during overnight celebrations.<\/a><\/p>\n

Brandishing their trophy, the winners of European club soccer\u2019s biggest prize<\/a> arrived in Paris on Sunday after their 5-0 win over Inter Milan in Munich on Saturday night, and headed to France\u2019s most famous avenue: the Champs-Elysees.<\/p>\n

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PSG supporters invade the Champs-Elysees avenue, with de Arc de Triomphe in background, before a PSG players\u2019 parade after the team won the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

PSG supporters invade the Champs-Elysees avenue, with de Arc de Triomphe in background, before a PSG players\u2019 parade after the team won the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

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PSG\u2019s head coach Luis Enrique, right, and PSG owner Nasser bin Ghanim Al-Khelaifi, center, attend a parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the team won the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

PSG\u2019s head coach Luis Enrique, right, and PSG owner Nasser bin Ghanim Al-Khelaifi, center, attend a parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the team won the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

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PSG fans waved blue and red as they waited for the team bus to arrive. As the parade started, the atmosphere was calm as fans stood behind barriers with a long line of riot police in front of them.<\/p>\n

They roared when the bus came into sight and captain Marquinhos brandished the trophy over his head, then passed it down to other players, some of whom wore sunglasses. Coach Luis Enrique joined in with the fans as they sang one of the club\u2019s anthems, and star forward Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 blew kisses. The team later met with French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

The overnight fatalities marred a night of exuberance<\/a> after PSG clinched its first \u2014 and long-awaited \u2014 Champions League title. The Eiffel Tower glowed in team colors, and fans partied through the night.<\/p>\n

\u2018Isolated acts\u2019<\/p>\n

The team denounced the violence. The title \u201cshould be a moment of collective joy,\u201d PSG said in a statement. \u201cThese isolated acts are contrary to the club\u2019s values, and don\u2019t at all represent the immense majority of our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The overnight celebrations were largely peaceful but degenerated into violence in some areas.<\/p>\n

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in the western city of Dax during a PSG street party after Saturday night\u2019s final in Munich, the national police service said. The regional prosecutor said the killing was not apparently linked to the football match. In Paris, a man in his 20s was killed in Paris when his scooter was hit by a car during PSG celebrations, and the driver has been detained, Paris police said. The circumstances of both are being investigated.<\/p>\n

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Fireworks explode on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan, Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Aurelien Morissard)<\/p>\n

Fireworks explode on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan, Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Aurelien Morissard)<\/p>\n

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A police officer was hit accidentally by fireworks at a PSG gathering in Coutances in northwest France and placed in an artificial coma because of grave eye injuries, the national police service said. A total of 201 people were injured around the capital, four of them seriously, the Paris police chief said.<\/p>\n

In the Alpine city of Grenoble, a driver ran into pedestrians who had gathered for a PSG celebration, injuring three or four people, the regional prosecutor\u2019s office said. It said the driver was detained. The city also saw fans throwing projectiles at firefighters and police using dispersion grenades.<\/p>\n

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The team and French officials are hoping Sunday is about the victory instead of violence. Up to 110,000 people were allowed along the iconic, tree-lined Champs-Elysees avenue for a parade. Later, the team will join fans in PSG\u2019s home stadium, the Parc des Princes,<\/a> for a concert and light show and official presentation of the Champions League trophy.<\/p>\n

A wide swath of central Paris was closed to traffic for the exceptional day. The security measures are also impacting the French Open<\/a> unfolding nearby.<\/p>\n

Thousands of police were deployed to keep order, and will employ similar tactics as they did Saturday night, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told reporters. AP reporters saw tear gas used near the stadium and water cannons used near the Arc de Triomphe to disperse rowdy crowds Saturday.<\/p>\n

In addition to the injuries and arrests, Nunez said four stores were looted overnight. Firefighters were so busy extinguishing garbage can fires in the middle of celebrations and dealing with other emergencies that the fire hotline was overloaded.<\/p>\n

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PSG players present the trophy to supporters during a parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the team won the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

PSG players present the trophy to supporters during a parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the team won the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

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By 2 a.m. Sunday, a total of 294 arrests had been made, including 30 people who broke into a shoe shop on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Two cars were set alight close to Parc des Princes, police added.<\/p>\n

At the Place de la Bastille, there were joyous scenes as fans climbed onto the base of the famous column, singing, dancing and letting off flares, while those around them joined in. <\/p>\n

At one point, motorbikes loudly revved their engines and the crowd cheered as they did laps around the column. There were no police nearby and, the atmosphere was upbeat with no tensions and plenty of singing.<\/p>\n

Nunez blamed the scattered troubles on \u201cthousands of people who came to commit acts of violence\u201d instead of watching the match. He noted similar unrest on the sidelines of prior celebrations in the capital, such as after France\u2019s World Cup win in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau lamented the violence, saying, \u201cI am angry today, like many French people …. When parents panic because their child has gone out to celebrate a major sports victory, that\u2019s unbearable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alex Turnbull and John Leicester contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s soccer coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Triumphant after its historic Champions League victory, Paris Saint-Germain put on an open-top bus parade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[12019,13512,34,2000,299,36,4179,8883,8615,64136,10034,64134,64135,10036,10031,79,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-149998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-bruno-retailleau","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-inter-milan","16":"tag-international-news","17":"tag-laurent-nunez","18":"tag-luis-enrique","19":"tag-marcus-vinicius","20":"tag-ousmane-dembele","21":"tag-paris-saint-germain-fc","22":"tag-soccer","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609299443974251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}