UK Prime Minister David "Cameron is mocking us, he is holding our territory in contempt and imposing his laws on the people of Calais," said the outspoken city's mayor Natacha Bouchart.
If the British "don't want to sit down at the table and (look at issues of) security, humanity and economic solidarity, we should open the border," said Bouchart, who is also a senator with France's Republican Party.
"Morally we can't do any more but our population is supportive (of the migrants)," she was reported as saying in Le Parisien newspaper.
"What we are asking for today is economic aid to help us get through this financially," she added, also calling on French President François Hollande to put his foot down and deal with the immigration crisis.
The comments from the Calais mayor come as French security forces and police struggle to repel repeated attempts by migrants to force their way into the Channel Tunnel — a situation which has created international headlines and became a symbol for the EU's failure to deal with the issue of migration. reported in English in the Local
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