As I’ve been on a bit of a European bent for the past two days, I figured I’d wrap up the week with one more kick in the pantaloons.
I’ve ignored the French, you see, who have behaved pretty miserably, or at least residents of their capital city did a few nights ago.
Last Saturday, the worst that could happen for Parisian cops did happen. The local soccer club, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), the most decorated club in France, won its match against the English football club Arsenal to take the Champions League trophy.
YAY, TEAM
Soccer hooligans and French rioters being what they are in any event, cops in Paris were braced for a long night if PSG lost, but knew it was really going to be sucktastic if, God forbid, they won.
They were right.
It started the second the match was over, as ecstatic fans poured out into the city streets and erupted into the familiar French frenzied violence everyone was anticipating shortly thereafter.
ALL NIGHT LONG
Problems in Paris pic.twitter.com/KOU8r5UF4S
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Things were especially fun in the Eiffel Tower area as darkness fell.
🔴🇫🇷 LIVE – In Paris, PSG fans clashed with police near the Eiffel Tower during celebrations of the club’s qualification for the Champions League final.#BayernPSG #BAYPSG #PSG pic.twitter.com/SPZgLdPTxn
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This one hit a little close to my heart, as Ebola and his family had sent me a picture of all of them standing in that very spot just the evening before, as fireworks blossomed over their heads. It’s a glorious photo.
This is nightmarish.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES!
Paris and Eiffel Tower are in flames! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WR4bs6aNeC
— MAGAfan1776 (@magafan1776) May 31, 2026
I thanked GOD they were on a train out the next morning.
Paris (early May 31) — Rioters start a large fire near the Eiffel Tower after the Champions League soccer match. pic.twitter.com/K5drx0CJui
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 30, 2026
Paris looked like the smoking remnants of a warzone…again.
La Tour Eiffel est noyée sous un nuage de fumée après un départ de feu sur les quais de seine.
Situation toujours très tendue dans ce secteur.#PSG #PSGARS #Arsenal #UCLfinal #Paris pic.twitter.com/89XVXjfRho
— Luc Auffret (@LucAuffret) May 31, 2026
…The Eiffel Tower is shrouded in a cloud of smoke following a fire outbreak on the Seine riverbanks.
The situation remains highly tense in this area.
#PSG #PSGARS #Arsenal #UCLfinal #Paris
At three in the morning, there were still running skirmishes with reveling rioters.
Il est maintenant plus de 3h00 du matin et les tensions se poursuivent devant la Tour Eiffel.
Tirs de feux d’artifice contre pluie de grenades lacrymogène.#PSG #PSGARS #Arsenal #UCLfinal #Paris pic.twitter.com/IcAoi2T3re
— Luc Auffret (@LucAuffret) May 31, 2026
By Monday morning, there had been 22,000 cops deployed, and 890 people were arrested across France, and there was one death, later updated to two.
Ostensibly over a soccer victory.
French authorities announced Monday that 890 people were arrested across the country when overnight celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League victory over Arsenal were marred by violent clashes, and a road accident that killed a young man.
Thousands of people poured into the streets of Paris for the match and to revel in PSG’s triumph in the final held in the Hungarian capital Budapest late Saturday.
But some mobs clashed with police, around 22,000 of whom were deployed across France after unrest last year when PSG also won the competition.
Same old, same old, oui?
There are people who do not appreciate the changes and rampant violence in the country anymore, and some of those are the folks on the front line.
A contingent of Paris police have walked off the job. Partially out in protest of several police officers being sent to prison for, but primarily because they feel betrayed and abandoned by the government after one of Macron’s ministers’ characterization and defense of the rioters. Riots in which over two hundred police officers were injured.
The entire 8th Arrondissement police station has left in disgust and will only answer emergency calls.
It’s a very important police district in the heart of the city to be without officers.
A move that French news outlet Valeurs Actuelles has described as “unheard of,” French police in the 8th arrondissement police station have gone on strike, from the top of the police command to the bottom. This is no ordinary police precinct either, but in the heart of Paris, right next to the Élysée.
The strike began yesterday on June 3 and it involves all branches of the precinct, including the Rescue Police Brigade (BPS), the Territorial Contact Brigade (BTC), via the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC). That means in this arrondissement, the entire workforce has ceased police operations, apart from acute emergency rescue operations, such as car accidents, a source told Valeurs Actuelles.
…Both French police unions, Alliance and Un1té, are standing behind the officers “in the face of this political and judicial abandonment,” wrote Valeurs Actuelles.
Regarding the PSG riots in Paris, the officers are outraged over fabrications and what the officers are calling outright lies from Interior Minister Laurent Nunez.
Despite the chaotic riots, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the term “chaos” should not even be used to describe them. He described these as simply “lively celebrations accompanied by unacceptable excesses.” He further argued that “no major damage occurred.”
He also claimed it was “a situation we anticipated and were prepared for,” he stated, adding: “We had the situation under control.
This is the French version of ‘fiery but peaceful.’ Mostly because the minister was safely elsewhere and not in the streets with officers.
…The Alliance Police union responded, stating: “Laurent Nuñez lied, the situation is extremely serious.”
In fact, one video shows the moment when a home-made bomb explodes, which resulted in what were described as “horrific” injuries.
This is quite a badda boom.
🇫🇷🔥This bomb blew up during the Paris riots and left officers with injuries that have been described as “terrible.”
The detonation of this bomb and others are being reclassified as attempted voluntary homicide against public servants.
The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, has… pic.twitter.com/VuUTKdaNwa
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 2, 2026
The riots are not fueling fan loyalty as much as they’re fueling French voters turning to Marine Pen’s National Rally party in droves.
Her young compatriot, Jordan Bardella, who is the current face, is cleaning up in polls as a result of French disgust with both Macron’s feeble government and the general state of the country itself.
With French national elections approaching in 2027, the mass riots seen in Paris following the PSG victory in the Champions League are leading to an even sharper electoral shift towards the right-leaning National Rally’s Jordan Bardella.
Verian’s June barometer, published by Le Figaro Magazine, places Jordan Bardella at the top of political figures, with 47 percent of those questioned wanting to see him occupy an important place in public life.
This rating, up six points in one month, reveals a record result for the National Rally.
Bardella, or Le Pen, should she manage to win an appeal of her ban on participating, are both poised to triumph in the French general elections next year.
…The riots in Paris left stores and cars burned out and resulted in 890 arrests, 180 officers injured, and two deaths. The apocalyptic videos from the riots also sent shockwaves through the French public.
While these polls cannot predict the election, they underline data showing that Bardella or Le Pen are well positioned to win the presidency in 2027 elections.
Gosh. I wonder why?
The uninvited and unemployed foreigners filling the streets of Paris have added so much diversified charm to a city that already oozed it.
🇫🇷🔴”He’s scared, he’s scared… Why are you trembling like a trembling d**k? You’re scared? You son of a wh*re?”
“I’ll f**k your mother, you wh*re…. Go die, old man, go die.”
Syrian “asylum seekers” are filming themselves harassing random French people near the Eiffel Tower,… pic.twitter.com/6edBbETccc
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 2, 2026
…Syrian “asylum seekers” are filming themselves harassing random French people near the Eiffel Tower, including this elderly vulnerable man.
One of the thugs manages a social media account with 167,000 followers, which means they are likely making ad money on these videos.
In other clips, they intimidate joggers, young women, and other vulnerable people in multiple European countries, with a number of different Syrians participating in these vicious viral videos.
What’s not to love, non?
Gros affrontements en cours près du àParc des Princes.
Des policiers sont pris pour cible par de nombreux tirs de feux d’artifice et projectiles.#PSG #PSGARS #Arsenal #UCLfinal #Paris pic.twitter.com/tHHxQ5wkeh
— Luc Auffret (@LucAuffret) May 30, 2026
…Major clashes underway near the Parc des Princes.
Police officers are being targeted by numerous fireworks shots and projectiles.
#PSG #PSGARS #Arsenal #UCLfinal #Paris
Ah, the joys of ‘youths.’
And Springtime in Paris.
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