Woman fired for kicking migrants
A camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary was fired late on Tuesday after videos of her kicking and tripping migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the Internet.
In separate videos, the woman, who was not named by the channel, was seen kicking a girl and tripping up the man and child as hundreds of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, broke away from police on Hungary's southern border with Serbia. Hungary's right-wing government has taken a hard line on the flow of migrants across its borders en route to Western Europe, portraying them as a threat to European prosperity and "Christian values".
"An employee of N1TV today showed unacceptable behavior at the Roszke collection point," N1TV, also known as Nemzeti TV, said in a statement. "We have terminated the contract of the camerawoman with immediate effect today."
N1TV runs a weekly chat show with Gabor Vona, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration opposition party Jobbik, according to the channel's website. The channel says it stands for "national issues."
More than 150,000 migrants, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East, have been recorded entering Hungary so far this year.
(China Daily 09/10/2015 page11)
