French police detain hundreds during Champions League final violence

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><strong>French police detained 780 people involved in violent clashes in Paris and other French cities that erupted on Saturday night after Paris Saint-Germain &lpar;PSG&rpar; won the Champions League title&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 57 officers were wounded&comma; with most suffering minor injuries&comma; as football fans set off fires and vandalised shops&period; One small group even tried to storm a Paris police station&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Nunez said at a news conference on Sunday that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the situation has been largely brought under control”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Most of the celebrations took place peacefully” across the French capital&comma; he said&comma; noting most incidents happened in the Champs Elysees area and close to the Parc des Princes stadium in western Paris where fans had gathered to watch the match&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;188211" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-188211" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;05&sol;IMG&lowbar;1780&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-188211" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-188211" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">PSG supporters celebrate after the Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Police also intervened five times overnight to prevent people from blocking traffic on the main ring road around Paris&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Nunez said incidents took place in about 15 cities in France&comma; describing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;one to two” shops vandalised in each other than Paris&period; He said 780 people were detained in all&comma; with 480 of them in the Paris area alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Paris prosecutors’ office said 277 people have been formally placed in police custody&comma; including 82 minors&comma; for alleged offences&period; Most were for assault of police officers while other allegations include theft&comma; vandalism and disturbing the public order&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One serious accident involved a driver losing control of a car that rammed into a restaurant’s terrace&comma; leaving two people wounded including one seriously&comma; Mr Nunez said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But he said that planned celebrations for the team’s win on Sunday afternoon at the Champ de Mars&comma; near the Eiffel Tower&comma; would go ahead as scheduled&period; He warned that police would respond with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;firmness and determination” to any potential violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The PSG team will then be hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee presidential palace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fans began celebrating in Paris after the final whistle on Saturday evening in Budapest&comma; Hungary&comma; where Paris Saint-Germain won by beating Arsenal on penalties in a dramatic final&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fans marched along the avenues near Paris’s Arc de Triomphe monument&comma; with some setting off flares and blaring car horns&period; Around 20&comma;000 people gathered on the Champs-Elysees&comma; where police worked to contain the crowd&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Paris police prefecture said smaller groups caused disturbances in various locations&comma; with some vandalising shops and setting fire to rubbish and self-service bicycles in the streets&period; Cars were also set ablaze&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those who attempted to storm a police station in the upmarket 8th arrondissement were dispersed&comma; 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