A police operation is under way in a Paris migrant camp that has resurged in recent weeks in a new challenge to French government efforts to tackle the migrant crisis.
Paris police and regional officials said Monday’s operation was not an evacuation, but aimed at verifying migrants’ documents and sanitary conditions in their cluster of tents.
Footage on BFM television showed migrants pushing back against shields of riot police at the scene in northern Paris, near the Stalingrad subway station.
President Francois Hollande said on Saturday that the Paris camp will be evacuated soon.
Aid groups say some of the migrants recently fled the Jungle camp being dismantled in Calais, though Mr Hollande said most are from recent migrants from Libya.
Such camps frequently surface in Paris, and are routinely cleared out.
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