Paris (France) (AFP) – French authorities announced Sunday that 780 people were arrested across the country when overnight celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League victory over Arsenal were marred by violent clashes, and a road accident that killed a young man.
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Celebrations across France for PSG's victory over Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League final were marred by violent clashes and hundreds of arrests © ROMEO BOETZLE / AFP
Thousands of people poured into the streets of Paris for the match and to revel in PSG's triumph in the final held in the Hungarian capital Budapest late Saturday.But some mobs clashed with police, around 22,000 of whom were deployed across France after unrest last year when PSG also won the competition.Highlighting an increased use of fireworks directed at law enforcement, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said in a press briefing 57 security forces were injured and that there had been "219 participants injured in France, including eight seriously".The Paris public prosecutor's office announced the death of a young man in his twenties after he crashed head-on into concrete blocks on a Paris ring road exit ramp on his motocross bike.
