Claiming he needed to prepare the land for his cows, farmer Lazaros Oulis turned his field in Idomeni, Greece into mud and soil while dozens of migrants stood by watching.
A Greek farmer enraged at refugees tenting on his land has been filmed ploughing through their campsite with his tractor.
Claiming he needed to prepare the land for his cows, farmer Lazaros Oulis turned the field in Idomeni, Greece into soft soil while dozens of migrants stood by watching.
Footage of the incident showed him driving through litter and narrowly dodging tents before he was stopped by local police.
The land, which Mr Oulis owns, is located in the Idomeni campsite where refugees have for months gathered in the hope the nearby border to Macedonia will be reopened.
For the foreseeable future, the border will not open - and as winter turns into spring, signs of brewing tension have appeared among farmers who want to plow their fields.
Mr Oulis said: 'I need to plow my field. Not somebody else's field, mine! I have a business with 70-80 calves, I want to produce (food for them), feed them, because, financially, I can't take this anymore.
'I told some NGOs here that I would give them a couple of acres so they could build two large sheds and I could save the rest of my field, nobody paid attention to me.
So, a tax paying citizen, operating on his own land and his own business, is stopped by the police. For the benefit of illegal economic migrants invading his land and his country.
Helped by the police.
Who will compensate the man for his loss of income ? The illegals camped out in his yard ? The NGO's who brought them there ? The police ? The government ?
None of the above.
Tax payer's rights ? Citizens' rights ? Property rights ? Business rights ? Farming rights ?
All irrelevant when the government says so.
Next step for the farmer is hopefully plow the rest of his fields, right up to the camp, and then a strong program of fertilization.. with cowshit.
Claiming he needed to prepare the land for his cows, farmer Lazaros Oulis turned the field in Idomeni, Greece into soft soil while dozens of migrants stood by watching.
Footage of the incident showed him driving through litter and narrowly dodging tents before he was stopped by local police.
The land, which Mr Oulis owns, is located in the Idomeni campsite where refugees have for months gathered in the hope the nearby border to Macedonia will be reopened.
For the foreseeable future, the border will not open - and as winter turns into spring, signs of brewing tension have appeared among farmers who want to plow their fields.
Mr Oulis said: 'I need to plow my field. Not somebody else's field, mine! I have a business with 70-80 calves, I want to produce (food for them), feed them, because, financially, I can't take this anymore.
'I told some NGOs here that I would give them a couple of acres so they could build two large sheds and I could save the rest of my field, nobody paid attention to me.
So, a tax paying citizen, operating on his own land and his own business, is stopped by the police.
For the benefit of illegal economic migrants invading his land and his country.
Helped by the police.
Who will compensate the man for his loss of income ? The illegals camped out in his yard ?
The NGO's who brought them there ?
The police ?
The government ?
None of the above.
Tax payer's rights ?
Citizens' rights ?
Property rights ?
Business rights ?
Farming rights ?
All irrelevant when the government says so.
Next step for the farmer is hopefully plow the rest of his fields, right up to the camp,
and then a strong program of fertilization.. with cowshit.
or pigshit...