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Camerawoman Kicks Migrants in Hungary
An employee of a private television channel associated with Hungaryâs far-right Jobbik party was filmed kicking migrants and tripping a man carrying a child. She was fired on Tuesday.
LONDON â Petra Laszlo, the Hungarian camerawoman who was fired this week after she was filmed kicking and tripping migrants, including a father carrying a child, has apologized. She said she was defending herself.
The footage of Ms. Laszlo blithely sticking out her foot to trip a man carrying his young daughter as they ran from the police spread rapidly on social media. It led to global condemnation and transformed Ms. Laszlo, whose apology was published late Thursday, into a potent symbol of the xenophobic, even violent, response to the migrant crisis in parts of Europe.
