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3 days ago
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Two people killed and hundreds arrested in France during Champions League win celebrations
French authorities say two fans died after celebrations around the country for Paris Saint-Germain's historic Champions League victory, European club football's biggest prize. A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in the city of Dax during a PSG street party, according to the national police. And a man was killed in Paris when his scooter was hit by a car during PSG celebrations, the interior minister's office said. The circumstances of both deaths are being investigated. French interior minister Bruno Retailleau commented in a post on social media on Saturday after the game: 'True PSG fans are getting excited about their team's magnificent performance. Meanwhile, barbarians have taken to the streets of Paris to commit crimes and provoke law enforcement … It is unbearable that it is not possible to party without fearing the savagery of a minority of thugs who respect nothing.'A police officer was accidentally hit by fireworks in northwest France and placed in an artificial coma because of grave eye injuries, the national police service said. The interior ministry said 18 police officers in Paris were injured, along with three elsewhere in France, as were 192 people celebrating in the streets. A total of 294 people were arrested by 2 am, though the celebrations were mostly peaceful apart from the descent into violence in some areas. Meanwhile, the Paris Saint-Germain squad is returning from Munich to the French capital on Sunday to continue celebrating with tens of thousands of the team's fans. They are set to arrive in Paris at 4 pm on the club's own Qatar Airways jet.
Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Copper cable thefts bring key Spanish rail route to a standstill with thousands stranded - days after country was thrown into chaos by blackout
Thousands of rail passengers in Spain have faced delays after copper cables used in the signalling system of a high-speed line travelling south from Madrid to Seville were stolen at five locations, authorities said. The theft, which happened late Sunday, affected dozens of trains travelling between Madrid and the southern Andalusian cities of Seville, Malaga and Granada as many people were returning home to Spain's capital after a holiday weekend. Copper prices are high on global markets, meaning criminals stand to collect big sums of cash from selling the material. Transport minister Oscar Puente said in an X post that he expected the rail line would fully return to its normal schedule by 4pm local time. Many travellers crowded Madrid's Atocha station on Monday seeking information about their trains from rail employees and screens with updated departure times. By 9am, Alberto Valero and his family had spent hours at the station because of delays on services to Seville, where they were headed. Mr Valero was on holiday in Spain from Mexico, and expressed frustration about the lack of information. 'We're here with tourists from everywhere - France, Portugal,' Mr Valero said. 'Everyone is at a loss for what to do because of the total disarray.' The cable theft took place at five points on the high-speed line in Toledo in central Spain, Mr Puente said on X, adding that Spain's national police force was investigating the incident. Spain's high-speed rail network has expanded rapidly and travels through large stretches of the country's little-populated countryside. The incident came a week after a blackout in Spain and Portugal saw high-speed train traffic in Spain ground to a halt, stranding many passengers for several hours. Described as 'catastrophically bad', the outage grounded flights, sent roads into gridlock as traffic lights failed, and left entire cities without power or telecommunications. A British holidaymaker was forced to give birth to a premature baby in the garden of a Costa del Sol hotel during the outage. The tourist sought help from a receptionist after her waters broke. The hotel worker tried to call a taxi - but ended up helping her give birth and even practiced CPR on the new-born baby who didn't have a pulse. The drama happened at the Puente Real Hotel in Torremolinos. The unnamed British tourist was rushed to hospital after emergency medical responders reached the hotel and took her away in an ambulance with a police escort. She was 30 weeks pregnant when she went into labour. The baby was said to be in a 'critical' condition this morning. The outage caused a frenzy across the Spain, with the interior ministry deploying 30,000 police officers countrywide to maintain security in an evening of darkness. Huge queues formed outside shops and banks as residents, with tourists desperately seeking to stockpile essentials and take out cash. Rows of cars were pictured lining up at petrol stations as people hoped to fill up their vehicles and fuel cans, with expats detailing how they have tried to power generators to keep their homes going. The partly state-owned grid operator's chief of operations told reporters last week that grid instability caused the Spanish and French electricity interconnection through the Pyrenees mountains to split, resulting in a general collapse of the Spanish system. Sanchez said that the country had lost 15GW of electricity generation in five seconds - equivalent to 60 per cent of national demand - and later thanked France and Morocco for providing Spain with power. While the exact cause remains unclear, REN, Portugal's grid operator, said they believed a 'rare atmospheric phenomenon' was behind the outages. Experts say the blackout is likely due to a combination of factors including Spain's reliance on green energy and 'anomalous oscillations' in power lines.
