Laurent Nuñez announced Sunday that 780 people had been arrested in France during the festivities following PSG’s victory in the Champions League final, an increase of 32% compared to last year, during a press briefing.
In 2025, after the Parisian club’s first victory in the Champions League, 592 people were arrested, including 491 in Paris.
The Minister of the Interior specified that the 780 arrests had given rise to “457 police custody”.
Highlighting the increased use of fireworks mortars against the police, Laurent Nuñez specified that “57 police and gendarmerie officers were injured” last night. None were seriously “in a medical sense,” although some injuries were “impressive,” he said.
The minister stressed that in France there had been “219 injured participants, 8 of whom were serious”.
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced shortly after the death of a man following a motocross accident on the Paris ring road and that a person injured with a stab in the capital was between life and death.
Mr. Nuñez noted that “in around fifteen cities”, there had been “thefts and looting of businesses”. “One to two businesses in each of these towns” were looted.
Excesses and violence were noted in total in “71 municipalities”, added the minister.
He promised that this Sunday, for the festivities planned for the return of Parisian players, “there (would be) strong interventions by the police” and a fine for “offense of obstructing traffic” in the event of intrusion on the Paris ring road.
The minister also judged that closing the Champs-Élysées, as demanded by the mayor of the 8th arrondissement, was a “bad idea”, which would “mobilize almost half of the security system”.
For Sunday, nearly 6,000 police officers and gendarmes are mobilized to secure the festivities.
