French riot police smash sprawling Paris tent camp that swelled after Calais Jungle was demolished as 3,000 migrants are cleared out

Thousands of refugees have been living in a sprawling tent encampment near the Canal Saint-Martin under an overhead metro bridge in the French capital's Stalingrad district. But this morning officials started a mass evacuation, gathering several hundred male migrants shortly before 6am behind a police line in a part of the camp housing Afghans. It comes just days after the Calais Jungle migrant camp was flattened with hundreds of refugees then making their way to temporary encampments in Paris.