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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.

The ramshackle camp has become a lawless, rubbish-strewn mess, full of mainly young men planning their journeys to the UK.

"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.

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The crackdown comes as the French capital hosts the first game of Euro 2016 on Friday with thousands of Brits expected to take the Eurostar in the coming weeks.

Strikes and terror threats are already causing a headache for authorities who are keen the championships go without hitch.

France remains in a state of emergency following last year's terrorist attacks.

It emerged that some of the ISIS killers had slept rough in Paris and travelled across Europe as refugees, before murdering almost 150 people in the city.

After the discovery that people smugglers are now sending migrants over the English Channel in boats, the UK has dispatched extra patrol boats to guard the British coastline.

More than 2000 migrants from the Paris shantytown were ordered on to a fleet of hired coaches and then "dispersed to sixty 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.

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

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.

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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 about £2000, "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.

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

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.