A camerawoman who was caught kicking and tripping over migrants as they escaped from police has been sacked.The woman, who was working for Hungarian news site N1TV, was filming the crowds of Syrian refugees as they fled across a field from Roszke camp on the Hungarian-Serbian border.
Shocking footage showed her deliberately sticking her leg out as a desperate man carrying a crying child ran past her.The clip showed the refugee falling to the floor with the child underneath him before he turned to shout at her.The camerawoman was sacked with immediate effect after the TV station saw the footage online, according to local media reports.
A statement posted on the station's website this afternoon read: 'Today, a N1TV colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roeszke reception centre. The cameraman's employment was terminated with immediate effect.'Outraged social media users took to Twitter to condemn the woman's actions, labelling her 'pathetic' and 'disgraceful'.
The man the camerawoman tripped was one of several hundred migrants who fled after being angered at the treatment by Hungarian police.The migrants had been part of a group of 1,500 people who had been waiting for hours at a refugee collection point near the Roszke crossing.
Pictures showed some carrying small children as they ran through fields and began following train tracks towards the town of Szeged in a desperate bid to move on.Police were seen following the migrants, who are hoping to reach other countries who are welcoming them in western Europe, and many officers did not attempt to stop them.
Hungary has made frantic and confused efforts to control the huge tide of migrants transiting the country, with many refugees becoming trapped for days outside the border.Around 167,000 migrants have entered Hungary illegally so far this year, with most crossing the border around the Roszke area.
When people come in you need to receive them properly... We need to have a system where these people receive proper care
Spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency
Last Friday, among a raft of anti-migrant laws approved, Hungary's parliament voted to criminalise illegal border crossing, with the ruling expected to come into force on September 15.Some refugees, who slept outdoors in a field overnight so they could wait for a train this afternoon, said conditions were so bad they wanted to return across the border to Serbia.
The news pushed Britain and France into pledging to accept tens of thousands more refugees from the record influx. Austria and Germany are already welcoming refugees, with many travelling from Budapest's Keleti train station.
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