Camerawoman wants to sue refugee she kicked at border

A Hungarian camerawoman caught tripping and kicking refugees says she plans on suing Facebook and one of the refugees, after she lost her job when the footage went viral.

Petra László was filmed tripping a man holding a child, as he fled from the police at the Hungarian-Serbian border early last month. Moments later, she was filmed kicking more migrants, including a small girl.

László, a camera operator with Hungarian Nationalist television channel N1TV, lost her job soon after the video was released, and now faces a criminal trial in December, reports The Independent.

The video was originally posted to Twitter by journalist Stephan Richter, a reporter for German television channel RTL. It quickly went viral, sparking a social media backlash against the camerawoman.

The hashtag #petra_laszlo_shame_on_you has also been trending on both Facebook and Twitter since the incident last month.

“Facebook played a major role in my situation,” László told the Russian newspaper Izvestia, adding the network “helped embitter people against me.”

László has also made claims against the man she tripped, saying he has changed his testimony, and she plans on proving him wrong.

Osama Abdel-Muhsen Alghadab, who fell on his child after being tripped by Lazlo, told the Daily Mail: “I didn’t see where it came from, I didn’t know if it was a camerawoman or a policeman. I just felt myself falling to the ground.”

Soon after the video went viral, László apologized, publishing a letter in the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, reports CNN.

“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,” she wrote.

“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.”