Hungarian camerawoman plans to sue Facebook and migrant she tripped

The TV camerawoman who was caught on camera kicking and tripping migrants along the Hungarian-Serbian border last month plans to sue one of them, as well as Facebook.

In an interview with the Russian newspaper Izverstia, Petra Laszlo said she will sue Osama Abdul Mohsen, the Syrian refugee she tripped, while he was carrying his son.

“He changed his testimony because he initially blamed the police,” she’s quoted as saying. “My husband wants to prove my innocence. For him, it is now a matter of honor.”

Laszlo also plans to sue Facebook for refusing to take down groups that shamed her on the social media site.

Following the incident, Laszlo sent an apology to newspaper Magyar Nemzet, denying accusations of racism, adding that “something snapped in me.” Hundreds of migrants, including Syrians, had broken through police lines and fled the relocation camp in Roszke, Hungary to cross into Serbia.

“The camera was shooting, hundreds of migrants broke through the police cordon, one of them rushed to me and I was scared,” she wrote.

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Laszlo’s employer, N1TV, fired her after German reporter Stephan Richter of TV channel RTL posted footage of the moment online. It sparked an international outcry.

“I do not deserve the political witch-hunts against me, nor the smears or the death threats,” she wrote in her apology.

Laszlo currently faces a criminal investigation for “violence against a member of the community,” which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, The Guardian reported.