Hungarian camerawoman apologizes for kicking migrants

September 12, 2015 01:08

A Hungarian camerawoman has apologized for kicking desperate migrants as they fled, saying her actions had nothing to do with racism.

In a video released this week, Petra Laszlo was documenting the wave of migrants, many from the Middle East, sprinting from a holding camp in Hungary when she saw a man running with a child in his arms.

She tripped him, sending them tumbling to the ground. Moments later, the same camerawoman kicked other migrants, including a young girl, as they ran.

A backlash ensued after video of her attacks surfaced, prompting her employer -- the Hungarian nationalist N1TV station -- to fire her.

Now the videographer says it was all a misunderstanding, one for which she's sorry.

The rush of migrants burst through a police cordon, which was scary, she wrote in a letter to the daily Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet.

The letter describes how the ensuing panic scared her and made her think she would be attacked.

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