"PSG won the Champions League, but the celebrations in Paris were completely distorted and became a playground for some people to vent their frustrations!" says a simplified Chinese Weibo post shared on May 31.
The attached video shows a group of men damaging a black Mercedes-Benz car.
A Facebook post also shared a clip on the day showing overturned cars that had been set on fire on a street littered with debris, before cutting to a group of people smashing the glass panels of a bus shelter.
"Paris jolted awake by overnight unrest as number of arrests rises to 416 -- Le Figaro," says its traditional Chinese caption.
Another video shared on Douyin on June 1 shows several people launching fireworks, with the simplified Chinese caption and text overlay claiming that it was "French football fans using Gatling-style fireworks against the police in Paris".
The posts emerged after PSG beat English Premier League champions Arsenal on penalties on the night of May 30 to secure their second straight Champions League title (archived link).
But celebrations were blighted by clashes between youths and police in Paris and other cities. One man died riding his motorbike around the Paris ring road in celebration while authorities reported stabbings and other attacks.
The false videos were also posted on Hong Kong paper Wen Wei Po's Facebook page, on Chinese news sites Baidu and Sohu and in multiple languages including English, Spanish and Croatian.
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