Hundreds of migrants have been evicted from a central Paris theatre after occupying the building for three months.

Police entered the Gaite Lyrique venue armed with batons on Tuesday morning as crowds of people gathered outside to protest against the eviction.

Shortly before 6am, members of the anti-riot CRS police forced their way through cordons that activists had built, and into the 19th-century theatre.

The theatre is famous for performances of opera, operetta and ballet – but all shows were cancelled during the three-month occupation by migrants demanding food and shelter.