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One person has died and another is in intensive care following unrest in Paris after Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League victory over Arsenal. More than 400 individuals were arrested as violence erupted, with police reporting the damage of vehicles and businesses across the city.
Overnight, police made 416 arrests across France, including 280 in Paris, and seven officers sustained injuries during the unrest. Authorities have implemented a robust security system to manage potential disturbances, having previously deployed thousands of officers in anticipation of unrest following PSG’s victory.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez termed the unrest following Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League victory as “absolutely unacceptable” and confirmed that 416 arrests had been made. Players are scheduled to participate in a victory parade this afternoon, including a reception with French President Emmanuel Macron.
What remains unclear — The identity of the 17-year-old in intensive care has not been disclosed.
One dead and another injured in unrest following PSG victory celebrations
One person has died and another is in intensive careafter widespread unrest erupted following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Arsenal in the Champions League final.
More than 400 people were arrested overnight after tens of thousands of fans of the French club celebrated their team’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over Mikel Arteta’s Gunners yesterday.
Sadly, things turned nasty quickly with some fans setting off flares and fireworks, while e-bikes were seen being torched in Paris.
An unidentified 17-year-old is in intensive care after he suffered multiple wounds near Paris’ Champs Élysée.
Thousands of police officers were deployed across France to deal with the disorder (Picture: Reuters/Abdul Saboor)
Another man, 23, died after crashing his motorbike into a concrete block.
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Rioters also damaged six vehicles, two businesses and a bus shelter in violence that took place across the EU country, according to French police.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez branded the unrest ‘absolutely unacceptable’ as he revealed that seven officers had been injured in the violence.
As order was restored today, police said they had made 416 arrests, including 280 people in Paris.
The clashes were a sad repeat of last year’s violence when supporters of the French team caused chaos after winning the same trophy.
Authorities had braced themselves in advance and thousands of police officers were deployed across France to curb any unrest.
Nuñez said they had a ‘very robust, very solid system in place’.
Before the violence erupted overnight, there had been clashes between police and PSG supporters at the club’s Parc des Princes, where the club had erected giant screens for them to watch the final, which took place in Budapest.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen wrote on X: ‘Only in France does a football club’s victory spark riots.
“Only in France does everyone feel compelled to lock themselves in their homes on the evening of a victory to avoid being confronted with violence.’
Players are due to take part in a victory parade this afternoon, which includes touring the Champ-de-Mars next to the Eiffel Tower and a reception held by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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