HUNGARY: Hungarian camerawoman avoids jail after being filmed tripping up and kicking refugees

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"A Hungarian camerawoman who was filmed kicking and tripping up refugees as they ran from police has escaped jail for breaching the peace.

Petra László was handed three years on probation for the incident in September 2015 at Szeged District Court.

Footage showed her tripping up a refugee as he an through a field carrying his young son, as well as kicking a small girl as hundreds of asylum seekers broke through police lines near the Hungarian border to make their way towards Budapest."

See the story: Hungarian camerawoman avoids jail after being filmed tripping up and kicking refugees (The Independent, link)

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