The migrant merry-go-round goes on: 900 people are evacuated from three illegal camps in Paris which had recently been cleared... and will almost certainly fill up again in days

French police remove nearly 1000 migrants from the centre of Paris

Capital's mayor says she expects 100 people are arriving every day

Illegal camp in 19th arrondissement cleared just a few days ago

Hundreds of men, 70 women and children waited peacefully with bags

By ISABEL HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 16:57 GMT, 17 August 2016 | UPDATED: 22:14 GMT, 17 August 2016


French police have removed nearly a thousand migrants from illegal camps in the centre of Paris - despite 100 more arriving to the capital every day.

The 8-900 people were boarded onto police buses before being taken to official camps to the east of the city.

In May, the city's mayor Anne Hidalgo announced plans to create a refugee camp with proper facilities, scheduled to be up and running in September.


French police have removed nearly a thousand migrants from illegal camps in Paris


The 8-900 people were boarded onto police buses before being taken to official camps to the east of the city

Journalists and activists at the scene described the evacuation as peaceful, but decried the concentration of people in Paris and Calais as a 'mess'.

Previous evacuations have led to violent clashes with police who have fired tear gas into the crowds of migrants.

One activist told AFP, 'Paris is a hub, a transit place for those heading north and those going south - those who are leaving and those who are arriving. It's a complete mess that's absolutely impossible to manage under the conditions that exist today.'


Journalists and activists at the scene described the evacuation as peaceful


Previous evacuations have led to violent clashes with police who have fired tear gas into the crowds
of migrants


Yan Drouet, a Senior Paris police official at the evacuation said there have been 25 large scale evacuations since June 2015 which have allowed authorities to address the situation of 15,000 migrants.

'Eight to nine hundred migrants who were in the Jemmapes platform of the Stalingrad Place and the Flandres Avenue were evacuated from 7am this morning,' he said.

'Every migrant will get a review of their administrative situation which will allow us to determine the best course of action depending on their situation,' he told journalists today.

Police need to determine whether the migrants are asylum seekers, weather they have applied for asylum and been rejected or if they have already applied in different countries.


There have been 25 large scale evacuations since June 2015 processing 15,000 migrants


The city's mayor Anne Hidalgo says she expects 100 new arrivals every day meaning it is likely the
informal camps will reappear in a matter of days as



In May, French police tore down and evicted 500 migrants from an illegal camp under the Stalingrad
metro in east Paris for the third time in two months



Reportedly from the war torn nations of Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan and Eritrea, 70 women and children from the group were given priority, while hundreds of men waiting with bags and suitcases boarded buses at approximately 10am.

It is likely the informal camps will reappear in a matter of days as Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo believes the city is seeing 100 migrants arrive everyday.

In May, French police tore down and evicted 500 migrants from an illegal camp under the Stalingrad metro in east Paris for the third time in two months.

Nearly a thousand people were removed from a camp in March, which had mushroomed in the wake of the destruction of part of the Jungle camp in Calais.


The migrant merry-go-round goes on: 900 people are evacuated from three illegal camps in Paris which had recently been cleared... and will almost certainly fill up again in days