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Hungarian journalist fired after 'kicking migrants'

The camerawoman was seen tripping up a man with a child in his arms.

A HUNGARIAN TV camerawoman was fired yesterday after footage appeared to show her kicking migrants, including children, as they ran from a police line during disturbances at Roszke, southern Hungary.

Journalist Stephan Richter shared the footage on his Twitter page, which showed a woman sticking her leg out as a man carrying a child passed.

The woman, later named as Petra Laszlo, can be seen kicking another running child in a separate incident.

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Footage of the incident from the camerawoman’s perspective later appeared on N1TV, an internet-based TV station close to Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party.

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“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.

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.

- © AFP, 2015

Read: Pushing back boats, setting fire to refugee camps: “That is not Europe”>

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:35 PM

    He sure made a hash of that.

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:35 PM

    Was obviously strong shi*e, if he made such a mistake

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:53 PM

    No need to go to Wikipedia to find outvote definition of dope :):)

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    Jun 18th 2014, 8:01 PM

    “I’m trapped in a bubble and everything is flat”

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:49 PM

    And they say cannabis doesn’t F**k your brain up….
    He should be locked up for his own safety…

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:50 PM

    LOL

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    Stoned and Doled ?

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:54 PM

    Jesus, I’ve heard of calling in for emergency pizza, but that’s taking it a bit far! :)

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    “only dopes smoke dope” cheech and chong

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:40 PM

    #idiot

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    Jun 18th 2014, 7:42 PM

    Baked on skunk…didn’t make the connection between calling the cops and getting nabbed or maybe he did and hung up…damned 999 call procedure! :-)

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    Jun 18th 2014, 9:44 PM

    #tagged himself:)

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    Jun 18th 2014, 11:22 PM

    Well done to him ,saved us tax-payers a lot of —hash ooops I mean cash hopes his fog clears .

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