Europe Refugee Crisis

Hungarian camerawoman faces criminal charges for kicking refugees
Hungarian prosecutors said Thursday they had opened a criminal investigation for breach of peace against a camerawoman caught on film as she tripped and kicked migrants who were fleeing border police.

In the footage, which sparked global outrage, Petra Laszlo can be seen tripping up a man sprinting with a child in his arms, and kicking another running child near the town of Roszke, close to the border with Serbia.

It later emerged that Laszlo, who was fired over her actions, had been working for N1TV, an Internet-based television station close to Hungary's far-right Jobbik party.

Two small opposition parties filed a criminal complaint against Laszlo shortly after the video began circulating on social media Tuesday.

"In the course of the investigation, the authorities will also examine if more serious crimes... can be established," said Sandor Toro, the deputy chief prosecutor of Csongrad county.

A "Wall of Shame" page on Facebook featuring pictures, videos and commentaries linked to the incident involving Laszlo had gathered more than 30,000 likes by Thursday.

"You are a disgrace to your profession," one user wrote.

The incident occurred as hundreds of migrants broke through a police line at a collection point close to the Serbian border where thousands have been crossing each day for the past month.

"These are shocking images. You're part of a news agency. With your hand you're shooting and with your leg you're hurting someone else," said Aniko Bakonyi of human rights group Hungarian Helsinki Committee.

The video showed Laszlo was "only kicking foreigners, no-one else, including a child who was clearly an asylum-seeker", Bakonyi added.

"Since she's been working as a cameraperson there, she clearly knew who she was kicking. It wasn't by accident, there is no mistake in that."

Laszlo herself has not yet reacted publicly to the storm.

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solarz said:

Despite the tragic nature of these refugees, there is one critical concern that any nation would be foolish to ignore, and that is the possible, nay, likely, presence of radicalists among the refugees.

It would be impossible for anyone to say that accepting this amount of refugees from areas of radical islamic activity would not provide European radical islamism with thousands of fresh new recruits.

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solarz said:

This opinion piece suggests that China should be helping with the refugee crisis:

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AssassinsMace said:

And I soooooo wanted to post early on, "When are they going to blame China for this?"

Remember when Colin Powell said, "You broke it, you fix it?" Again like I posted earlier, the lack of conscience... After all the blame we can place on Obama for his Syria policy, remember it was the EU that was pushing the US to act. And somehow China has responsibility?

Brag about how people would rather live in Western countries than China...

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tphuang said:

Well regardless of whose fault it is, there are discussions in countries not directly involved in this to accept refugees. I know that Canada is having this discussion. China has a larger economy. So there is no reason why it can't accept some refugees if it wanted to.

Note, I'm not saying that China, Canada, US or any of the Western European countries should, because I think this is something that the neighbouring countries should be mostly helping out with. But as China gets larger and large economy and wants to play a bigger role, these are the kind of issues it will be dealing with.

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tphuang said:

Well regardless of whose fault it is, there are discussions in countries not directly involved in this to accept refugees. I know that Canada is having this discussion. China has a larger economy. So there is no reason why it can't accept some refugees if it wanted to.

Note, I'm not saying that China, Canada, US or any of the Western European countries should, because I think this is something that the neighbouring countries should be mostly helping out with. But as China gets larger and large economy and wants to play a bigger role, these are the kind of issues it will be dealing with.

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SteelBird said:

This has went rival on the web for quite a few days and I came across this article of MSN.

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tphuang said:

Well regardless of whose fault it is, there are discussions in countries not directly involved in this to accept refugees. I know that Canada is having this discussion. China has a larger economy. So there is no reason why it can't accept some refugees if it wanted to.

Note, I'm not saying that China, Canada, US or any of the Western European countries should, because I think this is something that the neighbouring countries should be mostly helping out with. But as China gets larger and large economy and wants to play a bigger role, these are the kind of issues it will be dealing with.

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