This is the moment a Paris shanty town was smashed to pieces after French police swooped in a dawn raid to remove 400 Romani gypsies who had built the settlement.
The makeshift camp was set up on an abandoned railway line called La Petite Ceinture in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital.
French gendarmes this morning swooped to clear 135 shacks amid fears over poor hygiene and heating and a lack of fire safety measures.
Later in the day, diggers moved in and began the task of demolishing the temporary wooden buildings, which had been built up either side of the disused line.
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