Fans rampage after Paris St-Germain win Champions League
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Several hundred people have been detained by police in Paris after football fans went on the rampage when Paris St-Germain won the European Champions League. Vehicles and businesses were damaged, and several police officers were injured. It's the second year in a row that PSG have won the Champions League - but Arsenal didn't make it easy for them. Also: The first suspected case of Ebola outside Africa has been reported in Brazil. Colombians are preparing to vote in the first round of Presidential elections against a backdrop of political violence. The Oscar-winning editor of the original Star Wars film has died. And Scientists have discovered a new species of fungus, which they believe is helping the environment.
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| 0:36.0 | Hundreds are detained in Paris as football fans go on the rampage after PSG's win in the European |
| 0:41.7 | Champions League final. |
| 0:43.6 | Health officials are on alert in Brazil after a man returned from the DRC with suspected |
| 0:49.1 | Ebola symptoms. |
| 0:51.0 | And polls will open in a few hours in Colombia in the first round of the presidential elections. |
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| 1:21.3 | We begin in Paris. |
| 1:37.1 | Where hundreds of people have been arrested after violence broke out during the celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain winning the Champions League. |
| 1:42.7 | The match took place a thousand kilometres away in Budapest and we'll come to that in just a moment. |
| 1:45.1 | But first, here's an update on the violence in the City of Lights by our reporter Wilchalk. Well, Anka, we know that they detained more than |
| 1:51.2 | 280 people in Paris, out of 416 people who were detained across France. Now, out of that number, |
| 1:59.0 | we don't know how many are going to face further action, |
| 2:02.2 | but we have been told that seven police officers have been wounded, six vehicles have been damaged, |
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