Paris suffers an Olympic breakdown: A growing migrant crisis, sewage-filled Seine, a bedbug infestation, alienated residents… and comparisons to a 'warzone'

Minister for sport must be one of the most ­unenviable jobs in France right now. At the ­weekend, Amelie Oudea-Castera plunged into the murky waters of the Seine in an effort to ­persuade ­competitors that it would be safe to take part in the triathlon and open-water swimming events in the fast-approaching Paris Olympics.

Despite a £1.1 billion clean-up operation, unsafe levels of E.coli were recently found in the river three weeks running, from late June and into July.

Ms Oudea-Castera,…