PARIS: Paris authorities began an operation early Friday to clear more than 3,000 migrants from a camp in the northeast of the French capital. The operation to clear the sprawling tent encampment, near the Canal Saint-Martin under an overhead metro bridge in the Stalingrad district, was proceeding peacefully, an Agence France-Presse journalist at the scene said. Officials gathered several hundred male migrants shortly before 6.00 am (0500 GMT) behind a police line in a part of the camp housing Afghans. Buses were due to take them during the morning to accommodation centers around the greater Paris region of Ile-de-France. The Paris encampment has also been cleared twice in recent months, in July and September.

Source: Manila Times November 04, 2016 08:11 UTC