Fans on Sunday celebrated the final victory of the Bayern Munich Champions League in an outdoor cinema socially from the Bavarian city.
Nearly 700 km from Paris, fitness protocols came out the window when 5000 enthusiasts piled up at the Parc des Princes to watch their team lose the latest in Lisbon 1-0.
In Munich, a giant police presence was deployed to enforce, as far as possible, restrictions similar to the Covid-19 pandemic, with fines for party violators.
Game screenings banned in amateur areas.
Many enthusiasts flocked to downtown cafes or the open-air cinema near Munich’s former Olympic Stadium, where Bayern played for decades, before moving to the Allianz Arena.
This site holds 2,000 spectators for screenings.
However, due to the coronavirus, only 500 other people watched the game on Sunday.
“Champions! Champions!” have been chanted by the enthusiasts after the club’s sixth win at Europe’s most important tournament.
At the end beep, the main avenue Leopoldstrasse was filled with cars in the colours of the city club, while enthusiasts waved Bayern flags.
“Really wonderful for the city of Munich, it’s sensational,” said Tobias Rau, 27.
“This is a functionality that we have the right to celebrate despite the coronavirus and the fact that we have to respect the rules,” he added.
“It’s more than deserved, it was tight, but The Bayern players have had an amazing season,” said Lukas, 31.
At the Parc des Princes, enthusiasts lit flares and sang their songs.
Unlike Munich, the social distance on and off the field was forgotten when enthusiasts hoping to celebrate their team’s first Champions League triumph were left unsanched.
“We are disappointed, but we were horrible,” PSG amateur Anne Vaneson told the AFP.
“In the first part we were in a box of points, but we paid for reduced functionality in the first 20 minutes of the moment.”
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she expected “mature celebrations” if PSG triumphs at Bayern, after enthusiasts clashed with the police after their 3-0 win over RB Leipzig in the semi-finals.
However, there were fights between enthusiasts and outdoor police in the party box, with young people armed with fireworks attacked with tear fuel through the police.
Garbage bins and, in one case, a vehicle was set on fire through other young men angry at the defeat of their team, while police vans were bombarded with bottles.
Police said they had to evacuate a hundred other people who had accumulated in the Porte de Saint-Cloud district of the French capital, near the Parc des Princes.
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