We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.

Sign up fornow and never miss the top politics stories again.

Petra László received widespread condemnation for the act, leading to her being sacked from the television company she worked for.

But today she finally spoke out about the incident, reportedly saying she was "not a heartless cameraman who kicks children" and was just "scared" when the fleeing migrants broke through the cordon.

In the Hungarian conservative newspaper Magyar Nemzet, she was quoted as saying: "I was filming with a camera, a few hundred migrants broke the cordon and one ran into me. I got scared.

"They were flowing to my direction and then something just broke inside of me.

"With the camera in my hand I didn't see who is actually running towards me. I just felt I have to defend myself.