Over the past year, squalid camps have repeatedly cropped up in northern Paris -- with the police intervening each time to dismantle them. The camp had built up over recent months after police had cleared out several others in the neighbouring area and more refugees and migrants arrived in the French capital. Scores of riot police were drafted in to help with the operation that resulted in tense scenes due to the sheer number of migrants and refugees involved. Tear gas was used as the crowd of migrants pushed forward to get on some of the buses that had been laid on. Others, however, had already been granted asylum in France "but cannot find work and don't know where to live."

Source: The Local July 22, 2016 08:30 UTC