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| Petra Laszlo, who is seen recording with a camera, intentionally trips a man as he flees while carrying a young child, causing both to fall to the ground. (Video below) |
Staff correspondent, September 9, 2015, NewsCrunch
Petra Laszlo, a video journalist of Hungary's N1TV, was fired after she tripped and kicked fleeing Syrian refugees, making them fall.
A video shows that a middle-aged refugee man, who was carrying a child, stumbling down after tripping over the outstretched leg of Petra Laszlo, who was covering the event.
As refugees ran in an open field, police and journalists pursued them.
A video footage released by German reporter Stephan Richter, shows a number of journalists filming the refugees. Petra Laszlo, who is seen recording with a camera, intentionally trips a man as he flees while carrying a young child, causing both to fall to the ground.
The footage called an outrage on social media prompting N1TV to post a statement on its Facebook page, saying Petra Laszlo had been fired.
Hungary lies along a popular migrant route between Turkey and Germany. The refugees are popular neither with the Hungarian people or their government. Petra Laszlo probably gave vent to her country's anti-refugee sentiment when she decided to kick the fleeing refugee man.
Or, she was probably just engineering an incident to get a better shot.