Hundreds of UK-bound migrants were among those cleared out of a sprawling illegal camp in Paris on Tuesday.

The destruction of the settlement close to the Eurostar train station in Paris - near the Porte de la Chapelle - comes just two days after the election of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Macron has already indicated that he does not want migrants living rough in his country as they wait to get to test their asylum applications in Britain.

Instead he would far rather that they were allowed to travel straight across the Channel so as to be processed as soon as possible.

There were no serious disturbances, as some 1,600 migrants, mostly from Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea, boarded coaches that took them to welfare centres around France.

Paris police have evacuated a makeshift camp of more than 1,000 migrants living in squalid conditions in a northern neighborhood of the French capital

There were no serious disturbances, as some 1,600 migrants, mostly from Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea, boarded coaches that took them to welfare centres around France

The destruction of the settlement close to the Eurostar train station in Paris - near the Porte de la Chapelle - comes just two days after the election of French President Emmanuel Macron

Many of the Afghans speak English and are particularly keen to get to the UK.

Hundreds of riot police were involved in the operation in Paris around the Porte de la Chapelle, on the border with the troubled St-Denis suburb.

Police halted road traffic on a major crossroads in the north of the city in order to gain access to the camp, where a fight between migrants last month left several injured.

About 350 police were involved in the operation along with some 100 municipal employees and staff from humanitarian groups.

'These illegal camps present a major risk for the security and health of their occupants as well as for local residents,' said a Paris police spokesman.

'Clearance of the camp started soon after dawn, and was completed later in the morning.'

Police halted road traffic on a major crossroads in the north of the city in order to gain access to the camp, where a fight between migrants last month left several injured

Municipality workers dismantle a makeshift camp in Paris after evacuate thousands of migrants from the area

An afghan migrant sits in a tent of a makeshift camp in Paris on Tuesday as officials work to evacuate the area

Hundreds of riot police were involved in the operation in Paris around the Porte de la Chapelle, on the border with the troubled St-Denis suburb

The camp razed today (food leftover at the camp above) was just a few hundred yards from an official refugee centre, where men only can live for two weeks before moving on

The camp razed today was just a few hundred yards from an official refugee centre, where men only can live for two weeks before moving on.

There are queues to get into the facility every morning, but many are rejected, and this leads to them congregating nearby.

'It's true it has become a magnet for lots of migrants,' said a local aid worker, who asked to be referred to by his first name of Ralph.

'They get here hoping to enjoy food and lodging, and are then told they are not welcome.

'So they sleep rough nearby, and then the police move them on. It is an impossible situation. All they want is to be allowed to go straight to Britain.'

It had built up because of an Anglo-French agreement signed in Le Touquet, the northern seaside town where Mr Macron owns a holiday home, which enables British border officials to carry out checks of asylum seekers in France.

French anti-riot police CRS officers stand guard by a migrant wrapped in a blanket during the evacuation of a makeshift camp near La Chapelle

About 350 police were involved in the operation along with some 100 municipal employees and staff from humanitarian groups

Migrants and refugees queue to receive some food and beverages during the evacuation of the camp

Housing Minister Emmanuelle Cosse said the camps in the Porte de la Chapelle area had become 'extremely dangerous'

This means they are currently refused direct travel to the UK, and instead have to try and get there illegally, through the Channel Tunnel or on ferries.

But during the EU referendum campaign Mr Macron vowed to tear up Le Touquet if the UK voted for Brexit saying: 'The day this relationship [Between Britain and the UK] unravels, migrants will no longer be in Calais.'

Then, when visiting London, Mr Macron said: 'I want to put the Le Touquet border deal back on the table. It must be renegotiated, especially the parts that deal with the fate of isolated child migrants.'

It was former Prime Minister David Cameron who said during the EU referendum campaign that Brexit would result in illegal camps like the Jungle simply relocating to Kent.

Housing Minister Emmanuelle Cosse said the camps in the Porte de la Chapelle area had become 'extremely dangerous'.

It was former Prime Minister David Cameron who said during the EU referendum campaign that Brexit would result in illegal camps like the Jungle simply relocating to Kent

The camp evacuated on Tuesday was one of several camps sprouting up around the French capital

Nearly a thousand of migrants and refugees had set up their tents between the traffic lanes, in degraded health and safety conditions, for several weeks in La Chapelle

But she said authorities had been unable to clear them until Tuesday because large numbers of police were tied up in the security operation for France's two-round election that ended with the victory Sunday of 39-year-old centrist Macron

Last October, some 8,000 men, women and children were shifted out of Calais when the so-called 'Jungle' refugee camp was destroyed.

Last month, a huge fire gutted one of France's biggest migrant camps, housing 1,500 people near the northern French port of Dunkirk, which started after a brawl involving hundreds of Afghans and Kurds.

Europe has faced its biggest migrant crisis since World War II over the last few years as millions of people have fled war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

France has welcomed only a fraction of the newcomers.