Hungarian camerawoman who kicked refugees charged Published duration 8 September 2016 Related Topics Europe migrant crisis

media caption A Hungarian camerawoman has been sacked after being accused of tripping up fleeing migrants

A camerawoman who was filmed kicking and tripping up refugees near the Hungary-Serbia border has been charged with breaching the peace.

Petra Laszlo was caught on camera kicking a young girl and boy and then tripping up a man carrying a child.

Ms Laszlo was fired by right-wing TV channel N1TV after the footage of her actions went viral on social media.

She later apologised, saying she had panicked as migrants attempted to run across the border.

She said her life had been "ruined" by the incident.

image copyright Reuters image caption Ms Laszlo was filmed tripping a man carrying a small boy

Zsolt Kopasz, the chief prosecutor of Csongrad County, said the prosecution believed there was no "reasonable chance" of proving Laszlo's actions had caused injury, hence the charge of breaching the peace.

He said: "No data emerged which would have indicated that the conducts of the accused were motivated by ethnic considerations or by the migrant status of the victims."

image copyright AP image caption Osama Abdul Mohsen and his son Zaid have moved to Getafe, near Madrid

The man Ms Laszlo appeared to trip was later identified as Osama Abdul Mohsen, a football coach from Syria.

He and part of his family have now settled in Spain , where he is working for a Spanish football club.