'It wasn't safe to return to our hotel!' - Djokovic experiences Paris riots - video Dailymotion

Novak Djokovic told how life in Paris is for tennis stars amid the riots following PSG's Champions League win

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00:00People were quite tense here I must say for our return to the hotel they were not suggesting us at one point to go back at all

00:07to maybe find a place to sleep somewhere around here for a night

00:12because that point was already past midnight and there was some gas bombs and you know cars under fire

00:23and stuff happening on the street that was really dangerous so understandably

00:29and actually everything around our hotel which is close to Art de Triomphe

00:33so yeah we in the end we talked we waited for a bit and then we decided to go

00:39and then it was fine in the end we reached reached the hotel all good but

00:45it was quite noisy with a lot of things happening outside of the hotel so

00:53you know of course it's interesting in some way to to look at from your window

00:57what's happening with at some point it was getting yeah it was getting out of

01:01hand but it's understandable that people are so excited you know first time

01:06Champions League winners for this city is one of the most important cities in the

01:11world so yeah they're they're they're all they're all celebrating as still they

01:16still go you know I mean it's gonna it's gonna be several days I'm sure of

01:19celebration

01:21you