Police officers filmed tipping migrants out of tents and throwing them to ground

France’s interior minister has described images of police breaking up a refugee camp in central Paris, chasing people down streets and attacking journalists and others with truncheons and teargas as “shocking”.

Gérald Darmanin said he had demanded a report on the police operation by lunchtime on Tuesday.

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