The operation to clear out the camp along a canal by the Porte de la Villette in the north-east of Paris began at 6am and lasted until 8am.
State officials said 427 people including four women were taken from the camp of tents and makeshift shacks and brought to reception centres where they would receive temporary housing.
“The evacuation at the Porte de la Villette puts an end to camps that posed a sanitary risk for the area and a security risks for both occupants and residents,” Paris police said on Twitter.
#Paris19 | Fin de l'opération d'évacuation à la porte de la #Villette des campements qui mettaient en péril la salubrité des lieux et la sécurité des personnes, tant des occupants que des riverains. pic.twitter.com/OCNf4vBdus
Préfecture de Police (@prefpolice) February 4, 2020
The evacuation came a week after police dismantled a camp of some 1,400 migrants and asylum seekers at the nearby Porte d’Aubervilliers.
“There are no more camps,” officials told AFP agency. “The police will monitor this site to ensure the camps are not rebuilt, as they do at Porte d’Aubervilliers and Porte de la Chapelle,” the site of another camp evacuated in November.
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner pledged in November to evacuate all migrant camps in northeastern Paris.
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