A total of 219 people have been injured in clashes between football fans and police across France after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) won the Champions League final against Arsenal.
Eight were in a serious condition, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said. Thousands of officers were deployed to curb unrest that disrupted bus, train and rail services in the capital, Paris. Fifty-seven of them were injured.
Nuñez said 780 people had been arrested over the violence – with more than 450 in custody. A person was found dead after an accident on Paris’s ring road, which rioters tried to block overnight.
Some 6,000 police have been mobilised for Sunday’s victory parade at the site of the Eiffel Tower.
The interior minister said the security forces would be “firm” in their response.
“We are a great country for maintaining public order. We allow freedom of assembly, but not excesses,” he said.
There was similar violence when PSG won the same trophy last year, with celebrations turning deadly.
Thousands of officers had been deployed this time to curb unrest that disrupted bus, train and rail services in the capital Paris.
Fireworks and flares were set off on Saturday, while several police officers were injured in the fray. Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds in the city centre.
Paris’s vast Champs-Élysées was swarmed by fans shortly after the French team won in a penalty shootout.
Footage from the city shows flares being set off, electric bikes burning on roads and revellers smashing the glass of at least one shopfront.
“The vast majority go out to celebrate and it goes very well,” the interior minister said on Sunday.
“But other individuals, who are not PSG supporters, who don’t even watch the match, come to cause trouble and disturbances. We are here to prevent them from doing so. Our response is very firm.”
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen wrote on X: “Only in France does a football club’s victory spark riots.”
“Only in France does everyone feel compelled to lock themselves in their homes on the evening of a victory to avoid being confronted with violence,” she said.
Players are due to take part in the victory parade later on Sunday. It includes touring the Champ-de-Mars next to the Eiffel Tower and a reception held by French President Emmanuel Macron.