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| Hungary court acquits 'morally incorrect' journalist who kicked refugees | Hungary court acquits 'morally incorrect' journalist who kicked refugees |
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| A Hungarian television camera operator who made headlines in 2015 after tripping and kicking migrants fleeing police has been acquitted by the country’s supreme court. | A Hungarian television camera operator who made headlines in 2015 after tripping and kicking migrants fleeing police has been acquitted by the country’s supreme court. |
| “The video reporter was acquitted owing to the lack of a violation,” a court statement said on Tuesday, after judges ruled that Petra László had not been correctly charged by lower courts. | “The video reporter was acquitted owing to the lack of a violation,” a court statement said on Tuesday, after judges ruled that Petra László had not been correctly charged by lower courts. |
| László caused outcry in September 2015 when she tripped a man who was running with a child in his arms, and kicked another child near the town of Roszke, close to the border with Serbia. | László caused outcry in September 2015 when she tripped a man who was running with a child in his arms, and kicked another child near the town of Roszke, close to the border with Serbia. |
| Stories of 2015: Syrian refugee tripped by Hungarian camera operator | |
| Europe was in the midst of a wave of migration during which a large group had broken through a Hungarian police line. | Europe was in the midst of a wave of migration during which a large group had broken through a Hungarian police line. |
| The supreme court said it considered the context of “an assault by several hundred migrants fleeing a police intervention”. | The supreme court said it considered the context of “an assault by several hundred migrants fleeing a police intervention”. |
| It deemed that László’s act, “while morally incorrect and illicit, was a disruption, not vandalism”. That was the charge brought against her in lower courts, for which she was sentenced in January 2017 to three years probation. | It deemed that László’s act, “while morally incorrect and illicit, was a disruption, not vandalism”. That was the charge brought against her in lower courts, for which she was sentenced in January 2017 to three years probation. |
| The camerawoman, who was fired over her actions, had been working for N1TV, an internet-based television station close to Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party. | The camerawoman, who was fired over her actions, had been working for N1TV, an internet-based television station close to Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party. |
| “I turned and saw several hundred people charging toward me, it was quite incredibly frightening,” she said. | “I turned and saw several hundred people charging toward me, it was quite incredibly frightening,” she said. |
| The Syrian father who she tripped and his son obtained asylum in Spain, where the father landed a job with a football coaching school and his son ran with Cristiano Ronaldo onto the pitch in Madrid before a match. | The Syrian father who she tripped and his son obtained asylum in Spain, where the father landed a job with a football coaching school and his son ran with Cristiano Ronaldo onto the pitch in Madrid before a match. |
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