French police dismantled migrant camps in Paris and Calais following weekend clashes, the Wall Street Journal reports.
About 380 migrants from Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia had set up tents under a subway bridge in northern Paris—the largest migrant camp to appear in the city in recent years, according to authorities. The migrants, including about 76 women and children, were taken by bus Tuesday to emergency housing in and around Paris.
Around the same time, police dismantled two camps in and outside the port of Calais, a day after 24 migrants were injured during a fight between Sudanese and Eritreans there. About 140 people were picked up; some were being detained by police, while others were relocated to shelters. […]
France has been struggling to handle hundreds of migrants transiting the country, many of them fleeing conflicts in Africa and the civil war in Syria. After risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean, many head for the U.K. in search of a better life, but get stuck on the French side of the Channel.
The European Union is working to create a plan to deal with the flow of migrants, according to the Journal.