Football fans celebrate PSG’s victory on Avenue Champs-Elysees, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background, after the last football match of the Champions League between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan, Sunday June 1, 2025 in Paris.
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PARIS – Two fans are dead and a police officer is in a coma after mass celebrations nationwide for the historic victory of the Paris Saint -Germain Champions League, the French authorities announced on Sunday.
A 17 -year -old boy was stabbed to death in the city of Dax during a PSG street party after the final on Saturday evening in Munich, the national police service said. A man was killed in Paris when his scooter was hit by a car during PSG celebrations, said the office of the Minister of the Interior. The circumstances of the two are the subject of an investigation.
A police officer was accidentally struck by fireworks in the loss in northwestern France and placed in an artificial coma due to serious eye injury, the national police service said.
Hundreds of people were arrested in the celebrations, which were largely peaceful but degenerated in violence in certain regions.
The team is expected to return to a large parade on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday after winning their first title of the Champions League, a 5-0 victory against Inter Milan.
At the top of avenue Champs-Élysées, a water cannon was used to protect the place from the star, near the Arc de Triomphe. The police said that a large crowd not watching the match had tried to pass through a barrier to contact the police.
Sunday at 2 am, a total of 294 arrests had been processes, including 30 people who burst into a shoe store in the Champs-Élysées. Two cars were lit near the Parc des Princes, the police added.
At the place of the Bastille, there were joyful scenes while the fans rose on the basis of the famous chronicle, singing, dancing and leaving the light rockets, while those who joined.
At one point, the motorcycles have loudly turned their engines and the crowd applauded as they turn around the column. There was no police nearby and, at 1 am, the atmosphere was optimistic without tensions and a lot of song.
Security had been tightened in anticipation of potential post-match violence and 5,400 police officers were deployed on the Champs-Élysées, other key parts in Paris and its neighboring suburbs.
