Hungarian camerawoman gets probation for tripping migrants
Petra Laszlo was fired from her job at N1TV after footage appeared online of her kicking a girl and a young man
A migrant carrying a child falls after being tripped over by TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo (R) while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary, September 8, 2015. PHOTO: AFP
BUDAPEST:
A Hungarian camerawoman was sentenced to three years' probation, late on Thursday for kicking and tripping migrants fleeing police near the border with Serbia in September 2015, the news website Index.hu reported.
Hungarian photojournalist faces criminal charges for kicking refugees
Petra Laszlo was fired from her job at N1TV, a television station with nationalist sympathies, after video footage spread online appearing to show her kicking a girl and a young man. Index.hu reported late on Thursday that a court in the town of Szeged, near the Serbian border, had found Laszlo guilty of disorderly conduct after a hearing in which she testified by video-link.
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It said she had appealed. Prosecutors had previously said there were no grounds to charge Laszlo with a racially motivated hate crime. Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa passed through the Balkans and Hungary in 2015, en route to western Europe.
A Hungarian camerawoman was sentenced to three years' probation, late on Thursday for kicking and tripping migrants fleeing police near the border with Serbia in September 2015, the news website Index.hu reported.
Hungarian photojournalist faces criminal charges for kicking refugees
Petra Laszlo was fired from her job at N1TV, a television station with nationalist sympathies, after video footage spread online appearing to show her kicking a girl and a young man. Index.hu reported late on Thursday that a court in the town of Szeged, near the Serbian border, had found Laszlo guilty of disorderly conduct after a hearing in which she testified by video-link.
Meet the Syrian man who was tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman
It said she had appealed. Prosecutors had previously said there were no grounds to charge Laszlo with a racially motivated hate crime. Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa passed through the Balkans and Hungary in 2015, en route to western Europe.