[Daily Mail]
* 600 single men and 240 families had been living in the ramshackled shanty town at Porte d'Aubervilliers
* They were ferried out of the area in a fleet of coaches that took them to 17 so-called ‘reception centres'
* The mainly Afghan, Eritrean and Libyan residents of the camp were forced out, before bulldozers moved in to destroy makeshift huts and tents
French riot police today forced more than 1400 migrants out of an illegal camp in Paris which was then destroyed.
Some 600 single men and 240 families, including many hoping to get to Britain, had been living in the shanty town at Porte d’Aubervilliers.
The camp was on the city’s ring road and close to the Gare du Nord Eurostar hub where high speed trains travel to London, and others go to the Channel ports in northern France. |