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The entire ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais will soon be “torn down”, the French port’s mayor has claimed.

Natacha Bouchart hopes the radical step will see 5,000 asylum seekers currently living there heading to Britain as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, she wants all “migrants and trouble making activists who commit criminal offences arrested, prosecuted and expelled from the country”.

Back in March, demolition experts supported by CRS riot squads dismantled the southern half of the shanty town.

The operation involved tear gas and baton charges being used against mainly young men fleeing war and poverty from countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea and Syria.

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Around 5,000 migrants still still live in the remaining northern half of the camp, according to charity groups.

Now Ms Bouchart says she has received assurances from officials close to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve that the north side will soon go the same way as the south.

In a series of tweets, Ms Bouchart wrote: “We can’t wait any longer, we need to know as fast as possible when and how the Jungle will be torn down.”

In another announcement, Ms Bouchart said Mr Cazenueve would give the green light for the dismantlement “very soon”, through the prefecture.

Thousands of police and security officials remain deployed around the Jungle, as those living there make nightly attempts to reach Britain.

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Favoured illegal routes include stowing away on lorries, or boarding ferries or trains.

Migrants also regularly risk their lives by trying to get across the Channel by inflatable boats, or by walking through the Channel Tunnel.

Both Ms Bouchart and regional president Xavier Bertrand have called for the renegotiation of the border deal that allows UK Border Agency officials to carry out customs checks in France, rather than the UK, following the Brexit vote.

Ms Bouchart said: “Britain must take the consequences of its choice.”

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Moving the British border away from France, and back to the UK, would mean the French could simply send all their unwanted migrants straight to the south coast of England.

Mr Bertrand said: “The English wanted to take back their freedom: they must take back their border.

“The British people decided, I ask the French government to renegotiate the Touquet agreement.”

The Touquet treaty was signed in 2003, but French President Francois Hollande has said Brexit could easily lead to it being scrapped, with camps such as the Jungle being moved to Britain.