French police clear last refugee camp in Paris

Four women are among the group moved on from makeshift camp, which authorities describe as dirty and ‘overrun by rats’.

French police have cleared the last refugee tent camp in northeastern Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets.

The group, which included four women, 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 odor of urine and excrement”, according to the authorities.