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"On the roof of the world!" France turned Sunday into a party after the victory of the Blues in the final of the World Cup, especially in Paris, where hundreds of thousands of overwhelmed invaders invaded the Champs-Elysees.
From the "fan zone" of the Eiffel Tower to the city centers of Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg or Marseille via the Bordeaux stadium and the village squares, millions of fans jumped from joy on hearing the final whistle that gave them victory against Croatia (4-2).
"We won, we won!", shouted the crowd in the fan zone of Paris. "It's wonderful, wonderful," Martine, 58, who moved with her daughter in this space where 90,000 people saw the spread of the game in an atmosphere of euphoria, was excited .
After a few minutes, the Champs-Elysées were filled with people who will celebrate the second star of the Blues all night.
Eric Rodenas, 42, came from Cannes (south) with his 14-year-old son, Raphaël, to live on the Champs-Élysées. "I have lived 98 years, it was magical, tonight my son is lucky to live this same joy."
When the crowd left the "fan zone" of Campo de Marte, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower an orator warned them not to go to the Champs-Elysées because they were "saturated". In 1998 there were more than one million people to celebrate the triumph of the Zidane group on the "most beautiful avenue in the world".
Monday afternoon, the Champs-Elysees will continue to celebrate, when the Blues will walk the avenue. The American rapper Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, who gave a concert at the Stade de France on Sunday, appeared on stage with a two-star French team shirt, which further encouraged an already euphoric audience.
"Paris never dies"
More than 4,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized this Sunday in the capital of France, a country threatened by terrorism.
years of difficulties and anguish, with attacks that have left 246 dead since 2015 and a recurring crisis of identity, France has experienced this World Cup as a parenthesis .
In the Carillon, one of the Paris bars that were the target of the jihadist attacks of November 2015, the beers were flying in the air and customers jumped for joy. "To be world champion here is symbolic", considers Benoît Bardet, a young computer consultant "not especially a football fan". "Coming here with my friends, it was a way to remember me and to show that Paris never dies."
Bardet was planning to go to the Champs-Elysees. In 1998, "my parents put me to bed at 23h to drink at the Champs-Elysees, this time it's my turn!"
– "A Folly" –
Like him, many young people want to live the madness of 1998. "It's the best summer of my life " Exclaims Myriam, 17, crying at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
In terms of popularity, for the French team is a kind of rebirth after multiple scandals and the fiasco of the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, where players went on strike and ended up being eliminated.
This time the fervor He was growing as the World Cup progressed. First skepticism prevailed but the temperature gradually rose until it became feverish after the victory against Belgium on Tuesday in the semifinal . "You are the pride of your country, congratulations" Prime Minister Edouard Philippe reacted Sunday. "THANK YOU," tweeted President Emmanuel Macron addressing the Blues
From Russia, players followed the joy that invaded the country and proudly displayed the national flag. Twenty years after the "black-white-butter" (black-white-arabic) of 1998, a myth today bbad, the 23 Bleus present in Russia, 14 of which have origins on the African continent, have claimed their French Identity
"Seeing everyone gathered in the street this way is crazy, there are no problems, no racism, they all meet, we only live in one place. with football, "says Ludovic Guaignant, electronics technician
Thomas Bazzi, 31, celebrated the victory in a bar in central Paris " with renewed confidence ". "We are in a country subject to too much pressure, economic, social, we needed this window of hope" says Bazzi, who dares to predict a "baby boom" .
Éric, a 38-year-old engineer dressed from head to toe in the colors of the French blue, white and red flag, also thinks: month, there will be a generation of world champions baby! "
In the evening, there were incidents in several cities in France. In Paris, thirty young people looted the Drugstore Publicis a commercial establishment on the Avenue des Champs Elysees, before being dispersed by security forces who used tear gas.
And in Lyon, there were clashes between security forces and several young people, around a place where some 20 000 people attended the broadcast of the game on a giant screen.
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