Paris to Open 1st Migrant Camp by October

Paris will house close to 1,000 migrants in two camps to tackle the growing number of men, women and children fleeing war and poverty who are sleeping rough on the French capital's streets, the city's mayor said on Tuesday. The building of the two camps in the capital comes as the government faces pressure to dismantle a swollen shantytown dubbed the "jungle" near the port of Calais, whose inhabitants are blamed by residents for an increase in crime and the ailing local...

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