Reuters, Jan. 13, 2017 – A Hungarian camerawoman was sentenced to three years’ probation late on Thursday for kicking and tripping migrants fleeing police near the border with Serbia in September 2015, the news website Index.hu reported.
Petra Laszlo was fired from her job at N1TV, a television station with nationalist sympathies after video footage spread online appearing to show her kicking a girl and a young man.
Hungarian camerawoman Petra Laszlo was caught kicking and tripping over migrants as they escaped from police
Index.hu reported late on Thursday that a court in the town of Szeged, near the Serbian border, had found Laszlo guilty of disorderly conduct after a hearing in which she testified by video link. It said she had appealed.
Reporter from Hungary caught on video kicking migrants gets probation
Prosecutors had previously said there were no grounds to charge Laszlo with a racially motivated hate crime.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa passed through the Balkans and Hungary in 2015, en route to western Europe.
