European elected leaders imported the 3rd world thinking they would become workers and extend the pension system. Instead they go on welfare and burn down cities after soccer matches.
The rioters are generally young men, overwhelmingly from North African (Maghrebi) and sub-Saharan African immigrant backgrounds in the Paris banlieues.
This is the recurring demographic in French urban unrest — from 2005 to 2023 and recent flare-ups — driven by concentrated socioeconomic problems, family structures, and failed integration in those specific communities.
French officials and media almost always call them just “youths” or “protesters” to skip over their origins.
Paris Burns: PSG Champions League Victory Sparks Second Straight Year of Riots, Looting, and Arson
France’s biggest football triumph of the year once again—for the second year in a row–descended into a night of riots, looting, arson, and street violence, reinforcing growing concerns that public disorder has become a recurring feature of major national celebrations.
By dawn, following Paris Saint-Germain FC’s victory over Arsenal in the Champions League final in Budapest, Hungary, at least 416 people had been arrested across the country, including 283 in Paris. Meanwhile, Budapest remained calm.
Seven police officers were injured, businesses were looted, vehicles were torched, and large sections of the capital resembled a security operation rather than a victory celebration.
Problems in Paris pic.twitter.com/KOU8r5UF4S
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The most remarkable aspect of the violence, for many French citizens, was not its scale but its predictability. Days before PSG even took the field, authorities—and business owners—were already preparing for riots,
The French state deployed more than 22,000 police officers and gendarmes nationwide, including 8,000 in Paris alone. Such numbers would normally be associated with a major security threat, not a soccer match.
Paris is burning pic.twitter.com/1Z0jMAl9oQ
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