<p><br /> French riot police have been caught on film dragging women along the ground with babies on their backs while evicting immigrants.<br /> </p><p><br /> The video posted online by a housing rights group shows CRS officers with batons scuffling with African immigrant women at an encampment in the suburbs of Paris.<br /> </p><p><br /> One of the women, visibly pregnant, is seen lying on the pavement apparently in a daze after the confrontation.<br /> </p><p><br /> Among other incidents, the footage also shows police dragging a woman across the ground with her infant trailing behind in the dirt.<br /> </p><p><br /> The evacuation, condemned by human rights campaigners as "brutal", was handled "according to legal procedures and rules", according to the government of the Seine-Saint-Denis region around La Corneuve.<br /> </p>
