Farmer Moves Marker On French-Belgium Border, Causes International Incident
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“He made Belgium bigger and France smaller, it’s not a good idea,” said David Lavaux, mayor of the Belgian village of Erquelinnes.
It’s an international incident that is bordering on bizarre: A Belgian farmer inadvertently has increased the size of his country after moving a marker on the country’s border with France about 7.5 feet. The unidentified farmer only intended to create more room for his tractor, but, as a result, Belgium is now a teensy bit larger than when the original border was set 101 years ago, according to the BBC. “He made Belgium bigger and France smaller. It’s not a good idea,” David Lavaux, mayor of the Belgian village of Erquelinnes, told the French TV channel TF1. “I was happy, my town was bigger, but the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc [in France] didn’t agree.”More Related News