Disturbances and 127 arrests mar Paris party after PSG Champions League victory

France's interior minister has condemned violence that broke out in the Paris region after PSG's Uefa Champions League semi-final victory against Bayern Munich late on Wednesday night. Fans took to the streets to celebrate the Paris team's qualification for the 30 May final in Budapest. However, celebrations were marred by a series of disturbances. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told French radio that 127 people were arrested in the broader Paris region, including 107 in the capital itself. Eleven people were hurt, one of them seriously, he said. Twenty-three police officers also sustained minor injuries. Most of the festivities passed off without incident, as crowds gathered in many areas of Paris after PSG's 1-1 draw in Munich. Recently elected Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire joined the celebrations after watching the match with hundreds of people, many of them children, at his headquarters in the Hôtel de Ville. But elsewhere in the centre of Paris dozens of bins and some cars were set alight, and tear gas was fired by police to stop people approaching the PSG stadium at the Parc des Princes. "I condemn these excesses which are sadly becoming a common occurrence on nights when Pa