WATCH ABOVE: Video journalist caught on camera tripping and kicking fleeing refugees in Hungary
As dozens of refugees tried evade police officers at a registration camp in Hungary on Tuesday, a female video journalist was caught on video tripping a father holding a child in his arms.
The chaotic scene was captured by a German reporter at a camp near the Hungarian-Serbian border.
According to Hungarian news site 444.hu, the video journalist worked for Hungarian broadcaster N1 and has since been fired.
“Today, a N1TV colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roeszke reception center. The cameraman’s employment was terminated with immediate effect,” read a statement posted to the TV station’s Facebook page.
A second video shows the same video journalist appearing to kick two different refugees as they run from the police. The videos have sparked outrage on social media with many condemning the woman’s behaviour as “horrific.”
The refugee crisis in Europe was placed in the international spotlight last week when an image of a drowned three-year-old boy laying facedown on a beach led to calls from world leaders and aid groups to do more for those trying to escape the civil war in Syria.
Hungary has struggled with the huge number of refugees coming into the country. On Tuesday, leaders of the United Nations refugee agency warned countries will face a wave of 42,000 asylum seekers in the next 10 days and will need international help to provide shelter.
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Tensions have flared as government officials have been refusing to let the refugees onto trains to Germany and Austria.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been outspoken against the number refugees coming into the country. The Hungarian government said it is focused on building a 13-foot-high fence on the 109-mile border with Serbia.
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