GETTY The Calais mayor has spoken out about the migrant crisis

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In an interview with French television, Natacha Bouchart warned that police are dispirited and exhausted and can no longer contain the migrant gangs running the crime-ridden Jungle Camp. And in a separate call tonight the influential Road Haulage Association (RHA) warned the ongoing chaos is having a devastating effect on the British economy, urging Francois Hollande to send in the army. The number of migrants in Calais has swelled to more than 9,000, with increasingly horrific tales emerging of the violent lengths they are going to in their attempts to reach the UK.

GETTY The mayor has warned that the police are dispirited

The police are not enough and they are exhausted Natacha Bouchart

British truckers have been threatened by asylum seekers wielding chainsaws, iron bars and concrete boulders outside the port, which has been described as a "war zone". And speaking to French TV Ms Bouchart warned: "The police are not enough and they are exhausted. “It has been over a year since I have been asking for the army to come. Today, there is no vetting system, we do not know who is coming out and who is leaving.

Evicted Calais migrants sleep rough in Paris Wed, August 3, 2016 Hundreds of migrants evicted from the Calais Jungle camp sleep rough in Paris. Play slideshow Caters News Agency 1 of 191 Calais camp is dismantled as resident set fires and throw stones at Police

GETTY The mayor wants the army to get involved

“There is a state of war in France and Calais is part of France so we do not understand why there are not the same rules as in the rest of the country. The laws of the Republic must be enforced.” The mayor criticised Mr Hollande's central government in Paris, saying they are not taking the situation seriously enough and need to intervene in the lawless Calais dilemma. In an interview with FranceTV she said that police officers are being attacked by migrants each night and there has been a rise in the violence in the Jungle camp.

GETTY Calais wants the French Government to intervene in the crisis