Camerawoman fired for tripping fleeing Syrian refugee

Petra Lazlo was one of many members of the media filming at a camp in Roszke, Hungary, as migrants broke through a police line and ran toward the nation’s border with Serbia.

In footage posted by a German reporter, Ms Lazlo is seen tripping a father who’s running past holding his child. The father falls onto his child as a result. She was also seen tripping a young girl.

N1TV, which is run by the anti-immigration Jobbik party in Hungary, has issued a statement on the incident, saying it fired her immediately after seeing the footage.

“The N1TV colleagues today behaved unacceptably in Roszke collection point. Our working relationship with the camerawoman has ended. The case was considered closed our part.”

Several hundred migrants broke through police lines at Hungary’s main border crossing with Serbia, forcing police to resort to pepper spray at one point in an effort to move a group off the road.

The series of breakouts took place at a police collection point near the border crossing at Roszke, the first stop on the Hungarian side of the border.

Some 300 migrants, part of a group of 1,500 people waiting for hours at the collection point, bolted past police through a cornfield onto a train track, to walk to the nearby city of Szeged. Police later managed to persuade the group to be transported to refugee registration camps around the country.