MORE than 800 forced evictions of refugees, including children as young as 10, have taken place in northern France since August 2018, according to a new document released today.

The joint report by L’Auberge des Migrants and the Human Rights Observers contains shocking video footage and photographs of alleged of police violence.

This included people having their wrists cable-tied and boarded onto buses and some having numbers written on the backs of their necks to be identified.

One Kurdish refugee said: “French police came to us, lots of them … They wrote numbers behind our head, on the neck, so they can recognise us. So that’s how they were recognising us. They were calling one by one, taking information, fingerprint, go back to the cell … Mine was seven.”

The evictions took place in Calais and Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, between August 1 2018 and June 1 2019.

Children as young as 10 have been included in the police operations which take place behind a “security perimeter” to prevent observers from seeing the abusive practices.

Migrants are prevented by the authorities from retrieving their belongings. One volunteer described how a mother asked police if she could return to the tent to collect her sleeping child.

“​She had let him sleep in the tent while she went to get breakfast because she had forgotten it was an eviction day. 

“We had translated and the gendarmes initially denied her request and tried to ‘reassure’ us by telling us we shouldn’t worry as the son would not ‘end up in the trash’,” they said.

Despite the evictions, there are still over 1,000 displaced people present in the area, of whom 255 are unaccompanied minors and 277 are people in family units.

A court hearing on Tuesday heard a case launched by two displaced people supported by nine organisations warning of human rights violations. 

A decision is expected this week.