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Fights broke out close to one of the city's busiest train stations Gare Du Nord as riot police tried to support demolition workers in taking down up a camp full of UK-bound migrants. Now just hours after police were forced to step in to quash the violent outbreaks a new camp has been set up to house those who were ejected from Calais. Tensions in Paris have been rising today after Afghans and Eritrean migrants begaun fighting as they tried to save their possessions during the raid, which started soon after 8am. It followed thousands of migrants arriving in the French capital following the razing of the Calais Jungle refugee camp last week. While some 5,000 Jungle residents agreed to be bussed to resettlement centres around France, many others headed off independently, saying they still wanted to get to Britain. Up to 3,000 set up tents on the pavements around the Stalingrad Metro station, which is close to the Eurostar hub in the north of Paris.

Shortly before today's clearance French president Francois Hollande said: "We won't tolerate the camps any longer." Referring to the Paris clearance, Mr Hollande said: "We are going to carry out the same operation as in Calais." CRS riot police around Stalingrad said there would be a 'gradual operation' which is likely to go on all week until all the camps are gone however that appeared to have failed as evening fell. Meanwhile, the first ever official centre for refugees in Paris is due to be opened by the city's Socialist council later this week. The £6m facility is also close to the Eurostar hub, and will have beds for 400 men. But local residents and business owners say it will attract people smugglers, and other criminals.

GETTY Riot police swarmed on Paris after scuffles broke out

GETTY The clashes involved migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea

GETTY Demolition workers began clearing the site today

Jean Brossard, who has been living in the area for 30 years, said: "None of us asked for an immigrant centre on our doorsteps. "Everybody in the area is complaining. If these men want to go to England, then send them to England." Others have accused the Socialists of tokenism, saying they are simply opening the camps as a humanitarian gesture that will have no long term effect on Europe's immigrant crisis. While at least one of the migrants says he has lost belongings while living on the street. Shahid Khan, 23 said: “This is not the first time they have come and taken our tents and sleeping bags and mattresses. "We need help. I have filled out papers to stay in France, why are they doing this? If they want me to go to a reception centre, I will go.”

Riot police begin destroying migrant camps in Paris Mon, October 31, 2016 Overnight fires broke out in many parts of the camp destroying shacks and makeshift shops along the camps main street. Many migrants have left by coach to be relocated at centres across France. Play slideshow 1 of 43

The official centre, which will include a football pitch, will only allow residents to stay for between five and 10 weeks, and is likely to shut down within two years. Another centre for women with children will also open in the Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine later this year, or early next, but it too will only have a limited capacity of 350 temporary places.

GETTY The camp in Paris has been cleared twice before

The squatter settlement in Paris has already been evacuated twice before, and now, less one week after the ‘Jungle’ refugee’ camp was dismantled, thousands of migrants are said to have come back to this popular spot located in the heart of the French capital. Colombe Brossel, the Socialist deputy mayor in charge of security and urban affairs, said: “There were 1,500 migrants living under and around the ‘Stalingrad’ metro last week. There are now more than 2,200.” At daybreak, police officials were sent to the squalid ‘Stalingrad’ makeshift tent camp in Paris to separate asylum seekers from illegal immigrants ahead of the camp’s imminent evacuation. Police officers carried out checks in an effort to figure out who amid the group of homeless migrants has the right to seek sanctuary in France, i.e., those fleeing armed conflict or persecution; and who will need to be deported and sent back to their home country, said a local police source.