French police cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets.

According to the authorities, the 427 migrants were living in 266 tents and makeshift shelters in a canal-side camp "strewn with waste and refuse, overrun by rats and giving off a pestilent and foul-smelling odour of urine and excrement". The operation lasted two hours.

The country’s president Emanuel Macron vowed to clear the camps as part of his tougher stance on immigr...