Petra Laszlo

Hungarian camerawoman who kicked migrants sentenced

Petra Laszlo was filming refugees in September 2015 as they broke through a police cordon.

She was captured kicking two people as they fled, including a young girl. Later she appeared to trip a man carrying a child.

She says she will appeal.

Judge Illes Nanasi said Laszlo's behaviour "ran counter to societal norms" and rejected her defence lawyer's argument that she was trying to protect herself.

"I turned and saw several hundred people charging toward me, it was quite incredibly frightening," she said.

Syrian tripped by Hungarian journalist heading to Spain

Luiz Miguel Pedraza of the CENAFE school that trains soccer coaches says Osama Abdul Mohsen is on a train expected to arrive in Madrid at midnight Wednesday, accompanied by a graduate of the school.

Pedraza said Mohsen will stay near the school's facility in Getafe.

Mohsen was a soccer coach in Syria. The school wants to find him a job in soccer but he first needs to learn Spanish.

Camerawoman in Hungary fired for kicking, tripping migrants

Tuesday's footage went viral internationally within hours on social media. The N1TV channel's editor, Szabolcs Kisberk, said in a statement that employment of the camerawoman, widely identified as Petra Laszlo, had been "terminated with immediate effect." He said she "behaved unacceptably" at a police-supervised collection point for Arabs, Asians and Africans crossing the border from Serbia near the village of Roszke.