Video footage of two officers at break-up at ad hoc camp in Place de la République shocks interior minister

Two police officers are being investigated for alleged violent behaviour during an operation to break up a protest migrant camp in Paris.

The public prosecutor’s office announced it had ordered inquiries into two specific complaints against officers despatched to remove a group of mainly Afghan migrants from Place de la République in the centre of Paris on Monday evening.

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