
Migrants grappled with French police who sprayed tear gas in their faces as they dismantled a makeshift camp in Paris today.

Officers could be seen rounding up groups of mainly Sudanese and Eritrean men and putting them on buses after the raid on the camp on the Avenue de Flandre in the north of the French capital.

Tear gas was also fired as some of the migrants refused to be removed from the camp and police in full riot gear were seen carrying some of the men away from their makeshift homes and on to waiting coaches.

A migrant struggles with police after being forced to leave a makeshift camp set up in northern Paris before it is dismantled

As he is carried by his arms and legs by French police officers, the migrant is forced on to a bus that was waiting for the displaced refugees

French police, dressed in full riot gear, attempt to pick up a migrant who becomes engaged in a struggle with officers

The French authorities carry one migrant by his arms and legs to the waiting buses. The temporary camp was composed of mainly Sudanese and Eritrean migrants

The migrant situation is still problematic in France, noticecably in Paris, where many settle creating makeshift camps.

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

The other main destination in France for refugees and migrants is the northern port of Calais, where thousands of people are camped out in the hope of stowing away in a truck bound for Britain.

Pierre Henry, head of France Terre d'Asile, a charity that helps refugees and asylum seekers, called for other French cities to step up to the plate.

A migrant coughs and tries to catch his breath after fainting during the dismantling of the temporary camp where he had been living in Paris

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to create a refugee camp with proper facilities, scheduled to be up and running in September

Police officers assist one migrant on to a bus after he had tear gas sprayed in his face during a raid on a makeshift camp

'We need (accommodation) centres in all the regional capitals, to receive the refugees and help them get their bearings, so that people are not drawn just to Paris and Calais,' he said.

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.

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

The latest camp clearance comes as the Calais refugee camp nicknamed the 'Jungle' is revealed to be bigger then ever - despite hundreds being evicted just five months ago.

But despite talk of dismantling new aerial photographs appear to show it has grown, having moved to an adjacent field, as a new census claimed the population had swollen to above 7,000 for the first time.

After being rounded up by police, the manly Sudanese and Ertireans were put on to buses to be taken to new acccomofation