What happened after PSG's Champions League win wasn't a celebration — it was chaos engineered by a minority hell-bent on destruction. Families and women were nowhere to be found on the Champs-Élysées, replaced by burning vehicles, mortar fire and vandals running uncheckedwild. Until the state reasserts real authority, ordinary French people will keep getting robbed of genuinethe collective joy that's supposed to belong to everyone.
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