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"On the roof of the world!" France turned into a giant disco until late Sunday after the victory of the Blues in the final of the World Cup, especially in Paris where hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans have invaded the Champs-Elysees.
Of the 'fan "zone" from the Eiffel Tower to the city centers of Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg or Marseille via the Bordeaux stadium and the village squares, millions of fans let their happiness burst at the whistle of the final won (4-2) against Croatia. "We won, we won!" Chanted the crowd in the Parisian fan zone. "It's wonderful, wonderful," exclaimed moved Martine, 58, came with his daughter and 90,000 other supporters drowned in tricolor flags and smoke.
The Champs-Elysees were black people to celebrate until at the end of the night this second coronation of the Blues. For hours, madness has not faded. Hundreds of thousands of fans shouted their joy in the smoke of the smoke, against a backdrop of firecrackers and fog horns, until incidents eventually caused the crowd to leave.
# CM2018 The crowd flows on the Champs-Elysees ???? @ludovic_marin #AFP pic.twitter.com/8ocCSK7N8O
– Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) July 15, 2018
Around 12:30 am, the police, supported by vans and launchers of water, had completed making clear square on the famous avenue. From Cannes (south) to live the match on the Champs-Elysees with his 14-year-old son, Raphael, Eric Rodenas, 42, said: "I lived 98, it was magic. Tonight my son is lucky to experience that same joy. "
In 1998, there were more than a million to celebrate" President "Zidane and his band on" The World's Most Beautiful Avenue ". Monday the Champs-Elysees will still be at the party, when the Blues will descend the avenue around 17:00.
# instantaneous – France … triumph!
2nd star for France by Antoine Griezmann Kylian Mbappé Paul Pogba and their teammates, whose portraits were projected on the Arc of Triumph #AFP #FRA #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/96trV8bct2– AFP Sports (@AFPSport) July 15, 2018
Live at the Stadium of France with Beyoncé Jay-Z appeared on stage wearing a jersey of the French team hit by two stars, adding to the euphoria of the public . A few songs later, it's his wife's turn to wear a blue jersey with a denim mini-shorts.
Jay Z celebrates the victory of @equipedefrance Tonight at @StadeFrance wearing our new jersey !!!! ???? pic.twitter.com/ocJYVSXRku
– Thomas Joubert (@tomjoubert) July 15, 2018
"Most Beautiful Summer"
More than 4,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized on Paris Sunday, while France still lives under the threat of terrorism. Hard hit by a wave of jihadist attacks that has left 246 dead since 2015, France has experienced this World Cup as a parenthesis Enchanted.
In Paris, at the Carillon bar, targeted by the attacks of November 13, 2015, Benoît Bardet, a young computer consultant "not especially fan of football" had come to celebrate the title with his friends and to "show that Paris does not die". "Being world champions here is symbolic," he said as pints of beer flew. He too was determined to take the direction of the "Champs". In 1998, "my parents had slept at 23:00 to go drinking on the Champs-Elysées. This time it's my turn! "
Carillon, Paris. This photo of @afpfr is to shout. What symbol. What a bading revenge on 2015. pic.twitter.com/NhcSnQtqt4
– Remi Jacob (@remijacob) July 15, 2018
Many young people wanted to know in turn the intoxication of 1998. "It's the best summer of my life!" Exclaimed Myriam, 17, crying at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. In terms of popularity, the French team has come a long way, after repeated scandals and the World Cup fiasco in South Africa in 2010, where the players went on strike before being pitifully eliminated.
The popular fervor climbed crescendo during the competition in Russia. At first skeptical, the general public was gradually won by the football fever to ignite definitively after the victory over Belgium on Tuesday in the semifinal.
"Confidence found"
« You make the pride of your country, well done, "responded Sunday Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. "THANK YOU," tweeted the president Emmanuel Macron present for the final in Moscow, at the address of the Blues.
# CM2018 ???? at the Carillon in Paris #AFP pic.twitter.com/fkrX5qHl26
– Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) July 15, 2018
From Russia, the players followed the jubilation who seized the country and waved the national flag with renewed pride. Twenty years after the epic "black-white-butter" of 1998, myth today worn out, the 23 Bleus present in Russia (14 of which have origins on the African continent) have even claimed in an unusual way their French identity, to the image of Antoine Griezmann, enjoining the people to be "proud to be French."
"Seeing everyone in the street like this is crazy. There are more problems, racism, everyone is coming together. There's the football that you live that, "said Ludovic Guaignant, electronics technician, a Griezmann jersey on the back. Celebrating victory in a bar in central Paris, Thomas Bazzi, 31, spoke of a "newfound confidence". "We are still in a country under too much pressure, economic, social. We needed this window of hope, "he said, predicting even a baby boom.
Eric, a 38-year-old blue-white-red engineer from head to foot, was also convinced: "It's just that happiness is only love, in nine months there will be a Baby generation World Champions! " The party will have been disrupted by sporadic incidents, notably in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Ajaccio. In Paris, a man was hospitalized in serious condition after being badly wounded by a helmet during a fight near the Champs-Elysees, reported an AFP photographer. In Annecy, a 50-year-old man died after jumping into the cbad, according to Le Dauphiné Libéré .
Annecy: to celebrate the victory of France, he jumps into the cbad … and kills itself https://t.co/VtfUkEJTqC
– The Dauphiné Libéré (@ledauphine) July 15, 2018
(afp / nxp)
Created: 16.07.2018, 03:56
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