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Paris Saint-Germain players celebrated their historic Champions League win with a city-wide parade on Sunday, just hours after violent unrest broke out across France.
The Ligue 1 champions secured their first-ever Champions League title with a dominant 5-0 win over Inter Milan in Saturday’s final in Munich.
Led by manager Luis Enrique, the team held a one-hour open-top bus parade through Paris, traveling from the Champs-Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe, under heavy police supervision due to the previous night's violence.
The unrest, which followed the match, left two people dead: a 17-year-old stabbed in Dax and a 23-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle while riding a scooter in central Paris.
Paris police prefect Laurent Nunez reported 192 injuries and 491 arrests in the capital alone. The violence included flares and fireworks being set off, bus stops vandalized, and hundreds of vehicles torched. Among the injured were 22 police officers and seven firefighters, with a total of 264 cars set ablaze.
In Grenoble, a car rammed into PSG fans, injuring four members of the same family — two of them seriously.
In response, PSG issued a strong condemnation of the violence, emphasizing that such incidents do not reflect the values of the club or the behavior of the majority of its supporters, who were praised for their conduct throughout the season.
Despite the disturbances, the decision was made to proceed with Sunday’s celebrations, with attendance capped at 100,000 people.
Following the parade, the team visited the Élysée Palace to meet with President Emmanuel Macron and planned to conclude the day with a special event for season-ticket holders at Parc des Princes.
