Angry farmer drives TRACTOR through migrant tents after they set up camp on his land

AN ANGRY farmer crushed migrants’ tents with his tractor after they pitched up on his land.

Greek farmer Lazaros Oulis took matters into his own hands when a group of refugees , who set up camp up on his farm, refused to leave.

Mr Oulis, from the Idomeni village that has around 12,000 migrants, ploughed his tractor through the ground, claiming he needed to “turn it” to graze his cattle.

Footage shows his machine tearing up litter and dodging tents as a group of refugees look on with horror.

Eventually the police stopped Mr Oulis due to the number of children around.

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A tractor drives over tents migrants were staying in in Idomeni, Greece

Talking to the camera, a worried migrant shows the remains of his tent, and says “If he wants to do something he can do, because he is right, understand he’s right.

“But also we are refugees, we don’t have any home, we don’t have any house.

“Where can we go? This is big problem for us also. I know problem for him, but also problem for us.”

Another man, named as 32-year-old Syrian Reshal Hamdo, added he also sympathised with the farmer.

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Greek farmer Lazaros Oulis took matters into his own hands when refugees refused to leave his land

He said: “He is right, I say that he is right because it’s his land.

“We don’t know what we will do, this is not our country, it’s not our land.”

After the border between Greece and Macedonia closed, leaving thousands stranded, the squalid Idomeni camp is overflowing with no end in sight.

But as farming season approaches, many farmers are growing increasingly impatient and worried about their trade as they need their land for crops or grazing.

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Eventually the police stopped Mr Oulis due to the number of children around

Mr Oulis defended his actions to plough the field, saying: “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.

“I don’t have a problem with the (refugee) families, no problem at all. I could have been in their place. But I, also, have obligations.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/657681/Farmer-drives-tractor-through-migrant-camp-on-his-land

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