A Hungarian TV camerawoman was fired Tuesday after footage appeared to show her kicking migrants, including children, as they ran from a police line during disturbances at Roszke, southern Hungary.
The woman, later named as Petra Laszlo, can be seen in the footage tripping a man sprinting with a child in his arms, and kicking another running child in two separate incidents.
Footage of the incident from the camerawoman’s perspective later appeared on N1TV, an internet-based TV station closely linked to Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party.
“An N1TV colleague today behaved in an unacceptable way at the Roszke collection point,” said a statement from N1TV’s editor-in-chief Szabolcs Kisberk posted on the channel’s Facebook page later.
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“The camerawoman’s employment contract has been terminated with immediate effect as of today, we consider the matter closed,” it read.
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The scenes took place as hundreds of migrants broke through a police line at a collection point close to the Serbian border where thousands have been crossing over each day for the past month.
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