Flares and fireworks were set off, bus shelters smashed and cars torched amid wild celebrations as PSG won the biggest prize in European club football for the first time in their history, according to media reports.
Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez said PSG’s Champions League trophy parade will go ahead on Sunday evening, but there will be an increased police and military presence on the ground.
“The toll is lower than what we have seen in the past, but we will never get used to this kind of abuse, with people who only came to commit acts of vandalism and who did not even watch the match, and we will always have a very firm response,” Nuñez said.
“PSG supporters shouldn’t be mixed up with gangs of looters and vandals,” he added.
Twenty-two police officers and seven firefighters were injured, the interior ministry said, adding that 264 vehicles were set on fire.
