Police evacuate Paris migrant camp that grew after Calais
French police started evacuating thousands of migrants on Friday from an illegal camp in northeastern Paris where numbers soared after the closure of the large "Jungle" camp in the port city of Calais last week.
Police moved in at daybreak, Reuters reporters at the scene said. They escorted migrants to dozens of buses from the sprawl of tents and mattresses where numbers living rough surged in recent days to as many as 3,000.
A spokeswoman for the Paris prefecture said the migrants—many from war-ravaged countries such as Afghanistan and Sudan—would be transferred to holding centres in and around the French capital pending the processing of asylum requests.
