Two deaths, 559 arrests mar French celebrations after PSG’s Champions League win

VICTORY PARADE

The PSG team were to hold a victory parade on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday, with tens of thousands of supporters expected to gather to catch a glimpse of their returning heroes.

Overnight, AFP journalists saw police on the famed thoroughfare using a water cannon to stop a crowd reaching the Arc de Triomphe, which sits at the top of the Champs-Élysées.

Police, in a statement, said “troublemakers” clashed with officers “by throwing large fireworks and other objects”. One policeman was in an induced coma after being hit in the eye by a firework in the Normandy region, prosecutors said.

Elsewhere, police said a car careered into fans celebrating PSG’s win in…

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