Paris police chief blames looting gangs, not ‘real’ PSG fanspublished at 12:45 British Summer Time 1 June
Marianne Baisnée
Reporting from Paris
Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez announced during today’s news conference that four shops were looted on Saturday night, including a shoe shop on the Champs Elysées.
This was during celebrations following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Inter Milan in the final of the European Champions League.
He also confirmed that 491 people were arrested in the Paris region and nine police officers were injured. Nuñez said 192 demonstrators were injured, including four with serious injuries.
In Paris, one young man died during an collision with a vehicle and an investigation will take place to confirm whether or not it is linked to the celebrations.
“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,” concluded Nuñez.
Quote MessagePSG supporters shouldn’t be mixed up with gangs of looters and vandals.”
Paris police chief
“I am not minimising the incidents, which are serious, but they are the actions of several thousand people who are there to commit abuses and attack the police,” concluded Nuñez.
