French police have evicted thousands of migrants living on footpaths in an area of northern Paris.
As dawn broke on Friday, dozens of police and white police vans moved in around 5am local time to clear the area where Paris City Hall official Dominique Versini said numbers have swollen to between 2000 and 2500 people.
Many of them had fled war or strife in countries as far away as Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan.
About 100 a day were arriving in the area called the Porte de la Chapelle in the north of Paris, she told CNews TV station, noting many came from eastern Africa as well as the Middle East.
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