
The squalid conditions of a Paris shanty town housing 1,850 UK-bound migrants was revealed after it was smashed by police this morning following complaints it had been turned into an 'open-air toilet'.

Riot police moved in to the Eole gardens, close to the Eurostar hub, soon after 6am to the 'shock and surprise' of those living there.

And after the migrants were moved on, pictures revealed the dirty conditions of the camp, as people left their tents and some of their possessions behind.

The tents and rubbish are left strewn across the pavement after the migrants were ordered to leave the camp in Paris this morning

Sanitary workers in white suits and face masks move in to clear up the mess left behind by the migrant camp at Eole Gardens in Paris

Old parts of furniture and left piled up on the side of the road next to Gare du Nord alongside used mattresses and even clothes and shoes

Thousands of people had been living in the camp on the pavement and were removed this morning by riot police in a dawn raid

Charity workers were sent in to clear the site and pile up all of the rubbish into skips, before returning the pavement to its original state

A truck is sent along the street close to Gare du Nord to clear the rubbish that had been left by the migrants after the camp was destroyed

Charity workers help out with the clean up operation by loading dumped rubbish in to a skip ready to be collected to be dumped

The raid on the camp this morning by riot police came out of the blue for many of the people living there.

'We were not expecting this,' said Tegani Ugomai, a 26-year-old from Darfur, in the western Sudan, who was travelling with five other young men.

'Tents and food were being handed out over the weekend, but now we are all being split up. The French do not want us here,' Mr Ugomai added.

More than 1,850 migrants were ordered on to a fleet of hired coaches, and then 'dispersed to 60 temporary accommodation centres, including gyms, in other parts of France,' according to a local official.

It follows the city's Socialist Mayor, Anne Hidalgo, announcing that the city's first-ever international refugee camp will be built in the French capital later this summer.

Riot police wearing face masks forcibly remove the some of the migrants that had set up a camp in northern Paris close to the Eurostar hub

The riot police moved in early this morning to break up the camp and round up the migrants living rough and send them elsewhere

Many of the migrants were taken by surprise early this morning when police moved in to dismantle the camp and had to be forcibly removed

Migrants fold up their tents and gather up their other belongings as riot police moved in to break up a camp at the Eole Gardens close to the Eurostar hub in Paris

Riot police moved into the camp shortly after 6am this morning to break it up, much to the surprise of the migrants there

The riot police wore masks over their faces after complaints about the unsanitary conditions around the camp

The riot police ensure that all of the migrants have been loaded on to coaches before breaking up their camp

She told Europe 1 radio there had been 1,300 people counted at the camp on Sunday - mostly Afghans, Sudanese and Eritreans - but that numbers had surged as word spread they would be rehoused.

The camp had already been evacuated a month ago.

In the meantime, migrants from all over Europe, including many who were previously camped out in Calais, had made a bee-line for the Eole park.

It had already turned into a lawless, rubbish-strewn mess following heavy-rain in Paris over recent weeks.

Charity groups including the Salvation Army had provided tents and food for residents of the unofficial camp, in the northern 19th arrondissement, a short stroll from Gare du Nord, from where high speed trains travel backwards and forwards from London.

The camp was razed after complaints of gang violence and that the park had been turned into an 'open-air toilet'

The camp in Paris had been there for several weeks before police moved in today to raze it to the ground

One migrant is woken up and peaks out of his tent just before police move in to break up the camp in Paris

The grass lawns around it had turned into an open air toilet, while people smugglers offered passages to London, via train or plane, for the equivalent of around £2,000, with a 'temporary passport' included.

Violence had broken out between rival gangs from different nationalities - mainly Afghans, Sudanese and Eritreans - while police struggled to maintain order.

French housing minister Emmanuelle Cosse was present at today's 'evacuation', after saying: 'Camps are not the solution.

Once the migrants were rounded up, they were forced on to buses to be taken to temporary accommodation

The migrants at the Eole were washing and drinking at stand pipes, and there were fears that conditions such as scabies would break out, along with more serious contagious diseases

Migrants line up and wait to board buses to take them to temporary accommodation elsewhere in France

Some of the migrants managed to scoop up some of their belongings and pack them into plastic bags before boarding the buses

'The solution is to receive people in different locations in existing structures so they can be integrated in our country.'

France remains in a state of emergency following last year's terrorist attacks, during which Islamic State killers slept rough in Paris, and travelled across Europe as refugees, before murdering almost 150 people in the city.