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French authorities say 890 people were arrested across the country after celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League victory turned violent.

Getting into it: Shit started to hit the fan after PSG clinched its second Champions League title late Saturday with a dramatic penalty shootout win over Arsenal in Budapest, sending thousands of fans pouring into the streets of Paris. While most fans celebrated without trouble, some mobs clashed with the roughly 22,000 police deployed nationwide. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 57 members of the security forces were injured along with 219 other people, eight of them seriously.

The worst of the unrest concentrated in a few hotspots. Around 20,000 people converged on the Champs-Élysées, which one local district described as having become “an arena of urban guerrilla warfare.” Outside PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium, an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people hurled projectiles at police, with about 150 trying to force their way through a gate before being pushed back.

Cars and bikes were set ablaze, shops were vandalized, and a handful even made a run at a police station in the ritzy 8th Arrondissement. Prosecutors counted 306 people held in custody, 81 of them minors, with most accused of attacking police.

Nunez called the violence “absolutely unacceptable” but insisted “the situation has been largely brought under control,” noting that most celebrations were peaceful. The clashes nonetheless reignited political fights, with far-right figure Marine Le Pen writing that “only in France does a football club’s victory spark riots,” and one Paris district demanding a new “zero gatherings” doctrine for the Champs-Élysées, an idea Nunez rejected as unworkable.

EU lawmaker Raphaël Glucksmann pointed to deeper strains, warning that French “society is becoming increasingly brutal” and likening the country to “a pressure cooker ready to explode anytime.”