Camera Woman That Tripped Immagrants Brought To Justice

In September of 2015, a video surfaced of a Hungarian camerawoman tripping fleeing refugees. In this video, she even trips a man carrying a little boy in his arms. People were ecstatic to hear that police were charging the woman with 3 years probation for her inhumane actions.

The Hungarian camerawoman's name is Petra Laszlo and the man she most notably tripped was Osama Abdul Mohsen, a Syrian refugee who was holding his seven-year-old son Zaid.

The reason why refugees are seen storming past police in the video is because they were breaking a police barrier at a temporary camp near the town of Roszke, on the Hungary-Serbia border. About 400 refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan broke through the barrier.

It is said that this riot was caused by desperate conditions at the temporary camp where thousands of people had gathered on their journey to Western Europe.
While Mohnsen and his son Zaid had only stayed at the camp for a night, others had lived in the cramped conditions for weeks. Mohsen described the environment as, "caus[ing] anxiety and weariness to many migrants." The lack of interest, concern, or sympathy of the Hungarian authorities triggered the situation, causing the migrants to storm the police defences and walk their way to the nearby village, around three to five kilometres away.

Laszlo was soon fired by her employer a few days after the incident. Laszlo also apologized for her actions in a letter published by the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet. In that article she claimed she was frightened when the migrants burst through the police cordon, and feared she would be attacked. In her letter, she mentioned,  "I am very sorry for the incident, and as a mother, I am especially sorry for the fact that fate pushed a child in my way. I did not see that at that moment. I started to panic and as I re-watch the film, it seems as it was not even me." Mohnsen's responded negatively to her apology and says that he does not believe her excuses and that karma would be the deciding factor of her fate. While Laszlo has experienced severe backlash for her actions, life has started looking up for Mohsen and his son.

Before the incident Mohsen was actually a soccer coach at a sports club in Deir Ezzor before leaving Syria. After the video went viral, his popularity landed him a job offer at a football academy near Madrid, Spain, and his son Zaid was chosen as a mascot for Real Madrid. He even had the opportunity to walk out on to the field at Madrid's stadium holding famous soccer super star Cristiano Ronaldo's hand.

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