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Eugene

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Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:48 PM Oct 2015

Hungarian journalist sacked for kicking refugees plans to sue one of them

Source: The Guardian

Hungarian journalist sacked for kicking refugees plans to sue one of them

Ben Quinn
Wednesday 21 October 2015 19.12 BST

A camera operator for a Hungarian nationalist television channel who was filmed kicking and tripping refugees has said she plans to sue one of them and Facebook.

Petra László apologised last month, saying “something snapped in me” when she kicked two refugee children and tripped up a man carrying a child at the border area of Röszke.

However, in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, she has said she plans to take legal action against Facebook for allegedly refusing to remove threatening groups on the site and deleting groups that supported her.

László also said she plans to sue Osama Abdul Mohsen, one of the Syrian refugees she kicked, saying: “He changed his testimony because he initially blamed the police. My husband wants to prove my innocence. For him it is now a matter of honour.”

László was fired by N1TV after footage of the incident was posted on Twitter by Stephan Richter, a reporter for the German television channel RTL.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/hungarian-camera-operator-petra-laszlo-kicking-refugees-legal-action
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