Champions League Riots: Hundreds arrested after dozens of police officers injured in France

Champions League fever turned into chaos after hundreds arrested and dozens of police injured after football league riots in France.

As reported by BBC, a total of 219 people have been injured in clashes between football fans and police across France after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) won the Champions League final against Arsenal.

Eight were in a serious condition, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said.

Footage shows flares being set off, electric bikes burning on roads and revellers smashing the glass of at least one shopfront.

Thousands of officers had been deployed this time to curb unrest that disrupted bus, train and rail services in Paris, while 57 of them were injured.

Almost 6000 police have been mobilized for Sunday's victory parade at the site of the Eiffel Tower. To curb the situation, police fired tear gas to disperse crowds in the city center.

The French interior minister said nearly 800 people had been arrested over the violence, with more than 450 in custody.

A person was also found dead after an accident on Paris's ring road, which rioters tried to block overnight.

"We are a great country for maintaining public order. We allow freedom of assembly, but not excesses."

The interior minister said the security forces would take necessary actions promptly.

There was similar violence when PSG won the same trophy last year, with celebrations turning deadly when Paris police made 480 arrests, with 277 taken into custody, including 82 minors.

The Paris prosecutor's office said the figures were provisional.It added that offences ranged from attacks on officers to attacks on property, theft as well as illegal possession of weapons.

"The vast majority go out to celebrate and it goes very well, but other individuals, who are not PSG supporters, who don't even watch the match, come to cause trouble and disturbances. 

"We are here to prevent them from doing so. Our response is very firm," the French interior minister said on Sunday.