Supporters of Paris Saint-Germain tried in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday to disturb the night’s rest of the Barcelona selection. Among others RMC Sport reports that a group of fans set off fireworks at the hotel in the 15th arrondissement, a neighborhood near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, around 4 a.m. Various videos on social media clearly show that there are indeed flares involved in the action of the PSG supporters.
The fireworks have nothing to do with the Ultras Paris Collective, a fanatic PSG support group. The board of the supporters collective had already explicitly requested its members not to go to the Barcelona players’ hotel to cause unrest there. Despite this, the anger is very great among some local residents. “It is four o’clock in the morning, why are there fireworks,” writes a resident of Paris with the images of the fireworks. “I almost had a heart attack from this thing early in the morning.”
PSG fans were setting off fireworks outside Barcelona’s hotel at 4am in Paris ???? (through @LinaAgabani)pic.twitter.com/iJhz5xkaRR
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Incidentally, it was not only the setting of fireworks in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. The French media also mentions the arrest of a person following the sounding of the fire alarm in the hotel of the Barcelona selection. He also wanted to disrupt the sleep of the men of trainer Ronald Koeman. The intruder, who had reserved a room at the hotel in question and carried out his action at around 5:00 am, was soon arrested and taken to the police station. However, he was released after about five hours in custody.
Prior to the first meeting between PSG and Barcelona in the eighth final of the Champions League, fireworks were also set off, this time by supporters of the Catalans. However, the nightly escapades by no means broke the team of trainer Mauricio Pochettino, because PSG took sporting revenge by winning no less than 1-4 in the Camp Nou. Three weeks ago, Kylian Mbappé was the great hero of the French with a hat-trick. The return match in the Parc des Princes starts on Wednesday evening at 9 p.m.
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