Paris Saint-Germain's players and staff landed back in the French capital on Sunday ahead of a victory parade on the Champs-Élysées to celebrate with their fans after emphatically ending their long wait to win the Champions League.
Boss Luis Enrique and his team, including 19-year-old Désiré Doue who lit up the final in Munich on Saturday by scoring twice in the stunning 5-0 win against Inter Milan, were joined by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron could even be spotted engaging with the masses of fans that had turned up, saying: "Vive PSG, vive la France!"
Doué claimed the Champions League Young Player of the Season, while PSG teammate Ousmane Dembélé took home the Player of the Season accolade.
PSG's trophy parade had a blue, white and red backdrop
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More than 100,000 people are estimated to have turned up to see their heroes in the parade on Paris' showpiece avenue after the team won the biggest prize in European club football for the first time in their history.
The French side won it in style, too, with the greatest margin of victory in a final in the history of the Champions League or the European Cup that preceded it.
Lifting the trophy on Saturday was the result of hundreds of millions of pounds that has been pumped into PSG since Qatar Sports Investments bought the club in 2011.
However, the major stars that the Parc des Princes has seen, such as Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, have all since left the club without reaching the same feat.
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PSG celebrated their first European triumph
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Instead, Enrique moulded a team built on the foundations of selflessness, effort and efficiency. It resulted in a historic treble.
The former Barcelona boss becomes just the second manager in history to lead two different sides to a treble, along with Pep Guardiola.
An estimated 11.8 million viewers watched the game on French television which sparked a long night of wild celebrations.
Fans flooded the streets of the capital, letting off flares and fireworks as decades of pent-up frustration were released.
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Police made nearly 600 arrests across the country, the interior ministry said, after more than 200 cars were torched and police clashed with youths.
In the southwest town of Dax, a 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in the chest.
A 23-year-old man riding a scooter in central Paris was also killed after being hit by a vehicle. A policeman was put in an induced coma after being injured by a firework.
PSG condemned the violence "in the strongest possible terms" on social media on Sunday, adding that winning the title "should be a moment of collective joy, not of unrest and disorder".
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Fans had flocked to the streets of Paris, but it turned violent
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The club said: "These isolated acts are contrary to the club's values and in no way represent the vast majority of our supporters, whose exemplary behaviour throughout the season deserves to be commended."
They called on the public "to show responsibility and respect" during the parade on the Champs-Élysées, which will be closed to traffic and surrounded by tight security.
The celebrations will conclude with a party at home ground Parc des Princes.
In a message on X, Macron hailed a "day of glory for PSG".
"Bravo, we are all proud," he wrote. "Paris is the capital of Europe tonight."
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