BUDAPEST, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A Hungarian camerawoman was
sentenced to three years' probation late on Thursday for kicking
and tripping migrants fleeing police near the border with Serbia
in September 2015, the news website Index.hu reported.
Petra Laszlo was fired from her job at N1TV, a television
station with nationalist sympathies, after video footage spread
online appearing to show her kicking a girl and a young man.
Index.hu reported late on Thursday that a court in the town
of Szeged, near the Serbian border, had found Laszlo guilty of
disorderly conduct after a hearing in which she testified by
video-link. It said she had appealed.
Prosecutors had previously said there were no grounds to
charge Laszlo with a racially motivated hate crime.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in
the Middle East and Africa passed through the Balkans and
Hungary in 2015, en route to western Europe.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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