The decisive multiplex between Inter Milan and Naples on the last day of Serie has held all its promises, sealing a historic scudetto for the Neapolitans. While Naples confronted Cagliari at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, the eyes were also on San Siro, where the Inter received Como, surprising outsider of the season. The tension was palpable: in the event of Napoli's faux pas, the Inter, at only two points, could still hope to style the title at the post. But the Partenopei sealed their fourth scudetto by winning (2-0) against Cagliari at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Under the leadership of Antonio Conte, the Neapolitans delivered a solid match without trembling, carried by a well -established collective and palpable tension. Scott MCTOMINAY, one of the strong men of the season, opened the scoring, before Romelu LUKAKU doubled the second period, releasing the stands and definitively sealing a historical title. The tale of tale, rigorous and pragmatic, has easily contained a Cagliari team exceeded by the stake.
At the same time, Inter Milan did its share of work by also winning 2-0 against Como in San Siro. But this success remained insufficient: two points preserved until the end, the Napoli remained out of reach. This fourth title of champion of Italy, expected since the victory of 2023, confirms the revival of the club under the direction of Conte and reaffirms the place of Naples in the elite of European football. In the stands as in the streets of the city, the party exploded, illustrating the visceral attachment of the Neapolitan people to their club. This scudetto crowns an exceptional season, marked by consistency, youth and offensive football found after the post-track errors of 2023. In the whole mezzogiorno, the jubilation has spread, Naples returning to unique popular pride. But this disproportionate joy also went, unfortunately, to be excessive a few hours later in the streets of the city …
The terrible assessment of the festivities
The festivities marking the fourth scudetto of Napoli were tarnished by a series of violent incidents that occurred in the center of Naples, especially near Piazza Volturno. A young 27 -year -old Belgian citizen was stabbed in the leg, while a hundred people were admitted to the hospital for injuries resulting from fights, the explosion of craft firecrackers or crowd accidents. The police, strongly mobilized to dawn, carried out several interventions, including the arrest of two minors surprised in possession of six Kobra explosive devices, for a total weight of 280 grams. The staff of the provincial command unit of Naples intervened on site and secured the area. The people arrested were transferred respectively to the Colli Aminei justice center and under house arrest pending their trial. There are also a dozen robberies, for the same number of assaults overnight. In another incident, a 26 -year -old influencer followed by more than 220,000 people on Tiktok was arrested after trying to cross a limited traffic area with two passengers. During his flight, he threw a revolver loaded in a public garden. The weapon, whose serial number had been erased, was entered for ballistic analyzes, and the suspect was imprisoned. In addition, two other individuals, aged 59 and 32, were reported for trying to force a dam on Via Acton. The Piazza del Gesù was also vandalized, just like the Piazza Volturno.
Despite the momentum of popular jubilation, these overflows threw a shadow on initially festive celebrations. Sad irony: the chaos scenes in Naples offer, in spite of themselves, a golden argument to the eternal rast-joy which affirm that “any celebration ends badly”. The same ones who refuse any popular celebration in the name of public order can now brandish the images of craft firecrackers, wounded emergency evacuated and young armed with a scooter at 1,200 kilometers to close a Parisian debate. And this is precisely what is unfair. Because a city like Paris deserves to vibrate if its club reaches the summit of Europe. A well -organized, secure, supervised celebration has nothing utopian: it is possible, even desirable, in a country that claims to love sport and its emotions. But Naples' events sadly reinforce the voices that confuse celebration and slippage, crowd and violence, passion and disorder. In the end, it is the worst minds that find confirmation … at the worst moment.
When Naples scuttles the PSG festival even before the kick -off …
The night of chaos in Naples after the coronation of Napoli could well weigh in the balance in Paris, while PSG and its supporters dream of a triumphant parade in the event of a victory against Inter Milan in the final of the Champions League on Saturday. The heavy Neapolitan report – nearly 100 injured, multiple arrests, a stabbed Belgian citizen, a young influencer arrested with a firearm, many robberies – recalled how much spontaneous celebrations can degenerate, even in a context of popular fervor. These overflows thus illustrate the fears formulated for several weeks by the Paris police headquarters and strengthen their posture of prudence. In Italy, as potentially in France, the jubilation can turn to disorder, and the images of Naples now act as school cases. In Paris, the context is already tense. In May, during the qualification of PSG in the final, the Champs-Élysées were the scene of violence, garbage lights and dozens of arrests.
The prefecture, scalded by the previous ones – notably the riot scenes during the Trocadéro in 2013 after the title of French champion of PSG – fears that success in the Champions League does not cause large -scale overflows, especially in a tense security climate. A standoff has already been engaged between the club, which wishes a parade worthy of the major European teams, and the Parisian authorities: the Paris town hall would be willing to organize a framed celebration, but the prefecture is for the moment an end of inadmissibility to any public event in urban space. In this sense, the tragic events of Naples reinforce the security argument: they show how hundreds of thousands of people, united by the passion of football, can, in the absence of a strictly mastered device, generate a situation out of control. Faced with this, the French authorities could impose a withdrawal solution – as a ceremony at the Parc des Princes or a private reception – to reconcile sporting and imperative of public order. Because in Paris, as in Naples, the border between popular festival and urban chaos has never been so thin.
