MIGRANT CRISIS IN EUROPE
Hungarian camerawoman is fired after deliberately TRIPPING migrants fleeing police - including a father carrying his terrified young child
Petra Laszlo (inset), who worked for Hungarian news site
N1TV, which is run by the anti-immigration far-right Jobbik party, was
filming Syrian refugees as they fled across a field on the
Hungarian-Serbian border. Footage taken by another cameraman showed her
deliberately sticking her leg out (left) as a man carrying a crying
child ran past her. In the clip, the refugee can be seen falling to the
floor (top and bottom right) before appearing to shout at her. She has
now been sacked with immediate effect. Opposition parties Egyutt-PM and
the Democratic Coalition also said they will seek to initiate charges of
violence against a member of the community, which carries a sentence of
up to five years in prison, against Laszlo.
Hungarian camerawoman faces criminal investigation after kicking a little girl and tripping up a migrant father carrying his terrified young child as they fled police
- Petra Laszlo worked for TV station run by far-right anti-immigration party
- Footage shows her tripping desperate Syrian father carrying crying child
- TV station sacked her for 'unacceptable' behaviour after watching video
- Opposition parties say they will initiate charges of violence against Laszlo
The
Hungarian camerawoman who was caught tripping up a desperate refugee
father carrying his child has been caught on a second video - kicking a
fleeing girl.
Petra
Laszlo is now set to face a criminal investigation over her shocking
assaults, which she carried out while filming Syrian refugees as they
fled across a field on the Hungarian-Serbian border.
Laszlo
has also been fired from her job at Hungarian news site N1TV, which is
run by the anti-immigration far-right Jobbik party.
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The
initial footage which emerged last night showed her deliberately
sticking her leg out as a desperate man carrying a crying child ran past
her at holding area in Roszke.
The clip showed the refugee falling to the floor with the child underneath him before he turned to shout at her.
Today,
another clip filmed from another angle shows her kicking a young girl
across the thigh as she is trying to flee police.
Laszlo
was sacked with immediate effect after the TV station saw the footage
online, and she has been subjected to torrents of justified hatred on
social media
A statement posted on the station's website read: 'Today, a N1TV colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roszke reception centre.
'The cameraman's employment was terminated with immediate effect.'
Vile: Petra Laszlo was caught on
camera kicking a young refugee girl as she flees with other migrants
from a police line during disturbances at Roszke
Disgusting: The Hungarian video journalist can be seen kicking the little girl across the legs with all her might
Shameful: Laszlo, who attacked both
the little girl and tripped up a father carrying his child, is now
facing a criminal investigation into her actions, and she has been
sacked from her job
Opposition
parties Együtt-PM and the Democratic Coalition also said they will seek
to initiate charges of violence against a member of the community,
which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, against Laszlo.
Outraged
social media users took to Twitter and set a Facebook group called The
Petra Laszlo Wall Of Shame to condemn her actions, labelling her
'pathetic' and 'disgraceful'.
Davie
McLaughlin wrote: 'It would appear that a Hungarian camerawoman has
become this month's American dentist. This time, it deserves every ounce
of condemnation.'
Usman Ali Khan added: 'Such pathetic behaviour of a #Hungarian camerawoman deliberately tripping a refugee carrying a child.'
And
Tim Marshall, a foreign affairs analyst, said: 'From the angle where
Hungarian "camerawoman" kicks the child I don't think the benefit of
doubt applies... Disgraceful.'
The man Laszlo tripped was one of several hundred migrants who fled after being angered at the treatment by Hungarian police.
The
migrants had been part of a group of 1,500 people who had been waiting
for hours at a refugee collection point near the Roszke crossing.
Hungarian camerawoman Petra Laszlo has
been caught kicking and tripping over migrants as they escaped from
police officers who were making them wait on the border between Hungary
and Serbia
Laszlo, working for N1TV, was filming
the crowds of Syrian refugees as they ran across a field from Roszke
camp. Above, the man who gets tripped over is pictured moments before
carrying a crying child
The man was caught off guard and landed heavily with the child underneath him while the woman continued to watch
The refugee and child, who were carrying several bags, landed on the floor after Laszlo tripped them
Outraged social media users took to Twitter to condemn the woman's actions, labelling her 'pathetic' and 'disgraceful'
Petra Laszlo (above) worked for Hungarian news site N1TV which is run by the anti-immigration far-right Jobbik party
Pictures
showed some carrying small children as they ran through fields and
began following train tracks towards the town of Szeged in a desperate
bid to move on.
Police
were seen following the migrants, who are hoping to reach other
countries who are welcoming them in western Europe, and many officers
did not attempt to stop them.
Hungary
has made frantic and confused efforts to control the huge tide of
migrants transiting the country, with many refugees becoming trapped for
days outside the border.
Around 167,000 migrants have entered Hungary illegally so far this year, with most crossing the border around the Roszke area.
Last
Friday, among a raft of anti-migrant laws approved, Hungary's
parliament voted to criminalise illegal border crossing, with the ruling
expected to come into force on September 15.
Some
refugees, who slept outdoors in a field overnight so they could wait
for a train this afternoon, said conditions were so bad they wanted to
return across the border to Serbia.
One
Syrian, who gave his first name as Ali, said: 'We've been here for two
days and the Hungarian government only brings one bus?
'We're
asking to go back to Serbia and they are not giving us this right.
We're asking to go to Budapest and they are not giving us this right.
Why? Why?'
A migrant helps another pass under a fence after they broke through a police cordon near Roszk, Hungary
Hundreds of migrantsbroke through police lines in Hungary near the main crossing point from Serbia today
Migrants pass under a fence after they broke through a police line near Roszke at the Hungarian-Serbian border
Men, women and children climb over fences with their belongings after breaking through a police cordon today
Two migrant men climb over a fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in a bid to reach western Europe
The U.N. refugee agency added that it was concerned about the lack of proper reception facilities in the border area.
Spokesman Babar Baloch said: 'The border police are not trained to deal with the refugees.
'When people come in you need to receive them properly. There are woman and children and they are just kept in the open.
'Temperatures are going down as well so we need to have a system where these people receive proper care.'
Earlier today, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced fresh efforts to complete a fence to keep the refugees out.
Meanwhile,
fresh clashes erupted between police and migrants on the Greek island
of Lesbos last night, which authorities said was 'on the verge of
explosion'.
The news pushed Britain and France into pledging to accept tens of thousands more refugees from the record influx.
HUNGARIAN MOTORWAY CLOSED AS MIGRANTS BREAK THROUGH CORDON
Police
were forced to close a motorway after groups of migrants broke through a
cordon at Roszke on the border with Serbia and set off on foot.
State
news agency MTI reported that as many as 200 to 250 migrants left a
collection point for migrants near the border after police could no
longer contain a group of mainly young men pushing against their cordon.
Hundreds of migrants break out of a
police holding area and through lines of riot police in Roszke, Hungary,
before crossing the M5 motorway
Police were forced to close a motorway after groups of migrants broke through a cordon at Roszke, Hungary
A local news website said 400 migrants broke free from the collection point and half set out on the motorway
Police attempted to round up migrants at an intersection along the M5 motorway near Roszke in Hungary
A migrant family walks across the middle lane of M5 highway after they broke through a police cordon
A migrant family clambers across the middle lane of M5 highway close tothe Hungarian-Serbian border
Police were trying to round up migrants at an intersection along the M5 motorway, MTI said.
Local
news website Index said some 400 migrants broke free from the
collection point and half of them set out on the motorway, the other
half on a secondary road towards the city of Szeged.
The man the camerawoman tripped was
one of several hundred migrants who fled after being angered at the
treatment by Hungarian police. Above, the group just before many ran
from police
The migrants - including this boy
carrying a young child - had been part of a group of 1,500 people who
had been waiting for hours at a refugee collection point near the Roszke
crossing
A migrant falls face-first between railway tracks after trying to break through a police cordon on the Hungarian border
Austria and Germany are already welcoming refugees, with many travelling from Budapest's Keleti train station.
EU's
foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini called on 'all European
leaders... to take decisions that are coherent with the emotions they
express'.
Mr Orban said quotas would be futile unless Europe's frontiers were shored up.
Orban
mocked the European Union's efforts to distribute migrants through a
quota system and compared Hungary to a 'black sheep' representing a
voice of reason in the EU flock.
Calling
on Germany to end its 'open-door' policy, he said: 'We represent the
position of what the Americans call "first things first".
'As long as we are unable to defend Europe's external borders, it makes no sense to talk about the fate of the immigrants.'
Many of the migrants were angry at
having to wait for hours in the open for buses to take them to a
registration centre. Above, a man carries a crying child as police stand
guard
The scene was chaotic at times, with police choosing not to stop many of the migrants running away
Dozens of police circled around the
migrants they managed to catch to prevent them getting any further away
from the registration centre
Hundreds of migrants guarded by police
were forced to walk several miles along rail tracks towards the town of
Szeged after breaking away from the collection point
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