Kicking camerawoman on trial for tripping asylum seekers at border
The camerawoman who was filmed kicking and trying to trip migrants near Hungary’s border with Serbia in September 2015 has been charged for breaching the peace, Hungarian prosecutors have confirmed.
Petra Laszlo, who later apologised for her actions while also trying to justify them, was fired by N1TV after footage of her actions went viral on social media.
Laszlo said at the time that she panicked as refugees and migrants broke through police lines near her position and she felt under attack. She kicked a boy and a girl and later tried to trip a man carrying a boy.
Laszlo later told Russian newspaper Izvestia that her life was “ruined” and she was considering moving to Russia.
The man Laszlo tried to trip, and who fell while trying to pull away from police at the border, was later identified as Osama Abdul Mohsen, a soccer coach from Syria.
He and part of his family settled in Spain, where he was working for a Spanish soccer club.
Laszlo’s trial will be held in the southern city of Szeged.
Watch Petra Laszlo trip Osama Abdul Mohsen below.