Over 700 Rioters Detained Across France After PSG's Champions League Victory Celebrations Turned Into Rioting

More than 700 people were arrested across France overnight, following widespread rioting that erupted in the wake of Paris Saint-Germain's historic Champions League victory, which caused over 200 people to be injured and one person to die. A day after Paris Saint-Germain beat Arsenal in a nail-biting Budapest penalty shootout, cementing their place on the throne of European football, fans were taking to the Champs-de-Mars open space near the Eiffel Tower to hail the players staging a victory parade on Sunday afternoon. But as last year, the celebrations were partly overshadowed by hefty street violence in the night after the game. Some storefronts in Paris were destroyed, while rioters also torched cars and stands of rental bikes, police said. There was some vandalism against public buildings in provincial towns, such as Orleans, Interior Minister Laurent Nunes said. Nunes said the The situation was, overall, under control. Politicians from the right-wing National Rally, leading in opinion polls ahead of next year's presidential election, called for firmer law-and-order policies. Only in France does a victory of a football club trigger riots, said Marine Le Pen, the movement's leader.