GETTY Migrants are reportedly returning to the Stalingrad camp in Paris after it was cleared

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More than 3,800 migrants were relocated to temporary reception centres dotted across the capital’s suburbs, where they will be able to apply for asylum. But some 400 migrants, mostly men, are said to have left the ‘remote’ shelters they were sent to following the camp’s destruction; and all are hoping to get a place at the £5m city centre ‘Porte de la Chapelle’ migrant camp, which is due to open its doors this week.

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In the meantime, ‘Stalingrad’s’ displaced migrants are sleeping rough in the capital, and in the freezing weather, Nikita, a charity worker, told the French daily Le Parisien. She said: “There’s been a slow but steady trickle of migrants since Friday. They’ve tried to be discreet.

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“I’ve counted more than 100, but others say that more than 400 people have come back to what’s left of the ‘Stalingrad’ refugee camp.” Arnault, a Stalingrad local, confirmed that knots of desperate migrants were once again roaming the streets of Paris.

He said: “All they do is walk around aimlessly – you can tell they have nowhere to go. But they’re staying away from Stalingrad because they don’t want to be arrested and sent back to their home country.” Most of the returning migrants are from Afghanistan and Eritrea, but there are also Somali, Sudanese, and Chadian migrants in the area.

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Arnault said: “They’re obviously starving!” Benyamin, a 24-year-old Afghan refugee, arrived in Paris three months ago and has been sleeping “anywhere he can,” because the entire area – the camp was located under the Stalingrad metro station – has been blocked off and is still teeming with riot police.

GETTY Stalingrad was evacuated by the French government amid fears it would become a 'mini Jungle'

GETTY A local said 'you could tell' the migrants had 'nowhere to go'