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(PARIS) – This is a victory for all of France and the local crowd has done justice to the crowd by beating tens of thousands of people on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris in a explosion of joy.
2 victory over Croatia in the final of the World Cup in Moscow scored Sunday the second time in 20 years that France won the World Cup, and came at a time when people feel in need . Goffrey Hamsik, wearing a hat looking like a rooster – the French national symbol – and a shirt with the number 10 Kylian Mpappe, the 19-year-old star from Bondy, a Parisian suburb . "I've had a lot of problems in France in recent years," he said, recalling deadly terrorist attacks. "It's good for morale … Here we are all united, we mix, there is no religion, there is nothing, and it is which is good. "
The troublemakers have spoiled some festivities at the top of the Champs-Elysees, breaking the window of a department store, throwing bottles, temporary barriers and even a bicycle to the police anti – riot as the celebrations end around midnight The police fought back with water cannons and tear gas BFM-TV reports that the store was looted.
Earlier, people were wrapped up in Flags and dressed in crazy hats, and a man completely naked with the exception of the Tricolor, walked on the avenue where France had shown his military might a day earlier.Bastille Day
Revelers launched smoke bombs in national colors – blue, white and red – obscuring Napoleon's triumphal arch People climbed to the top of each newsstand and bus stop in the area to wave flags and lead the crowds below in cheers. The national anthem, the Marseillaise, sounds, car horns and cracks of cherry bombs.
A young man sprays a fire extinguisher on the crowd during a hot afternoon.
Hundreds of police in riot gear are discreetly lined up in the side streets to watch the partygoers. As a rule, celebrations in France end with broken windows and other destructions, and Sunday was no exception. Tear gas was lobed at one point on the Champs-Elysees. About 4,000 policemen were monitoring the fan zone – up to 90,000 of capacity – during the match, then moving to the Champs-Elysees and surrounding streets.
At dusk, the Eiffel Tower marked 1998-2018
The Arc de Triomphe was awash in national colors, lit by the rooster, the faces of the winning team and the words "Proud to be blue", or French
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For all crazy antics – and some partygoers who lost control – a feeling of patriotism and unity was almost visceral.
Antoine Griezmann, the French striker who scored one of the goals on Sunday, said at a press conference. Two days before the final, broadcast on BFM TV, this pride of the country is rare.
"We say so little … We should be proud to be French," Griezmann said.
Mahmoud Bourbadi figured among taking a longer-term view and he had a bit of sobriety about France's race for the title and the festivities that it sparked.
Bourbadi runs a youth center in Bondy – Mbappe's house that was among those marked by riots in 2005 that exposed the cracks of France that still have to heal – and he knows the teenage star of the tournament.
"All this euphoria and excitement, it is positive but it is moving and ephemeral," he said before the victory of France. Bourbadi said that sport is a "catalyst for bringing people and nations together."
But, he added, he must be built on.
"What we see is magical, exceptional, but what will we do with it tomorrow?"
This is a question for President Emmanuel Macron, who was in Moscow to celebrate the victory of the team, and who will receive the team more formally Monday at the presidential Elysee.
Revelers celebrated the moment.
"We are happy, it took 20 years … it is the pride of the nation, it unites everyone, it unites," said Frédérique Pourquet while she and her friend left the Champs-Elysees.
The victory "shows that the French people are consolidated and the work of all France," said Omar Bzi
Hajar Maghnaoui, of Asnières, north of Paris, said: "C & # 39 is a way to bring the French closer, and also the world. "
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