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Paris Police Hone in on Makeshift Migrant Camp for ID Checks

Migrants at a makeshift camp near Paris’s Stalingrad metro station were awakened by police identity checks on Friday morning, October 28. As the demolition of the Calais ‘jungle’ grabbed headlines over recent days, hundreds of migrants have retreated to Paris joining thousands of others sleeping rough, many of them congregated around the Jaures, Stalingrad and La Chapelle metro stations.

According to French media reports, the evictions in Calais have seen numbers of migrants living in tents in Paris jump from 2,000 to 3,000 in just two days.

Police regularly cleared these camps throughout the summer, moving migrants to reception centres, only for them to fill up with new arrivals a few days later. According to Vice, identity checks take place almost weekly at Paris’s makeshift camps. Credit: YouTube/Franz Grosse