Farmer moves border stone for tractor – and makes Belgium bigger
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from World news | The Guardian on (#5HDTD)
French farmer could theoretically face criminal charges for moving 200-year-old marker
The boundary between France and Belgium is believed to have been inadvertently redrawn by a farmer who found the 200-year-old border stone marking the divide in an inconvenient location for his tractor.
The French farmer could theoretically face criminal charges after making Belgium bigger by moving the stone that has marked the border since after the defeat of Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.
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