Petra Laszlo of N1TV - which has links to the nation's far
right Jobbik party - was filming a group of refugees running away from
police officers, when a man carrying a child in his arms ran past
A camerawoman for a Hungarian TV station has been fired after tripping a refugee carrying a child as he fled from police.
Petra
Laszlo of N1TV - which has links to the nation's far right Jobbik party
- was filming a group of refugees running away from police officers,
when a man carrying a child in his arms ran past her her.
She stuck her leg out and the man tripped, falling on top of the young child he was carrying.
He turned and shouted at Lazlo, who continued to film him.
Other pictures emerged that appear to show her kicking other migrants, including a child. Read more:
Ruthless people smugglers charge desperate refugees hundreds of pounds only to dump them and call cops Attack: The camerawoman readies her attack
A statement on the TV station's website read: "Today, a N1TV
colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roeszke reception centre. The
cameraman's employment was terminated with immediate effect.”
Twitter users were horrified at her actions.
One wrote: "What you have done is not only not professional, but unforgivable!
"You are truly hideous inside out.” Strike: The man falls onto the child
Another added: “Firing Petra Laszlo isn't enough. This woman should be arrested for assault and battery.
"Take this violent, sadistic and racist person to jail.
Hungarian
police herded hundreds of migrants past 13-foot high fences topped with
razor wire into a new "Alien Holding Centre” on its southern border on
Sunday, readying a security clampdown on an unremitting influx from
Serbia. Anger: Twitter users were furious at the woman
The right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one
of Europe's most vociferous critics of mass immigration to Europe, has
vowed to cut illegal border crossings to zero as of September 15, with a
108-mile barrier and stringent new laws.
He has asked parliament to approve sending in the army.
Orban’s
government has shrugged off the symbolism and Cold War echoes - noted
by critics in western Europe - of razor-wire barriers and watchtowers
along borders in formerly Communist eastern Europe.
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