After the French professional soccer team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) won the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League (UCL), some fans staged violent incidents across Paris.
According to the Associated Press and others on the 31st local time, the French Interior Ministry said 416 people were detained nationwide, including 283 arrested in Paris that day. In the process, seven police officers were injured, and six vehicles and two enterprises were damaged.
The previous day at Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, PSG faced Arsenal of the English Premier League (EPL) in the UEFA Champions League final. The match was tied 1-1 through extra time and went to a penalty shootout, where PSG won to secure the title.
After the title was secured, about 20,000 fans gathered on the Champs-Elysees, and some rampaged, damaging shops and setting vehicles on fire. Clashes also broke out between police and fans near PSG's home stadium in Paris. When some fans threw fireworks at police, police responded with tear gas.
French police deployed 22,000 officers nationwide for the Champions League final and restricted public transit in Paris, including trams, subways and buses. But they failed to prevent the violence.
In France last year as well, violence erupted after PSG's Champions League victory, and more than 500 people were arrested.
Marine Le Pen, floor leader of the far-right National Rally (RN), criticized on the social media platform X, saying, "France may be the only country in the world where a soccer team's victory leads to riots."