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Hungarian camerawoman gets probation after kicking and tripping refugees

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A Hungarian camerawoman has been sentenced to three years probation after being found guilty of disorderly conduct.

Petra Laszlo was fired from her job at N1TV, a television station with nationalist sympathies, after video footage went viral of her kicking a girl and a young man near the Hungary-Serbia border in September 2015.

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Mrs Laszlo confirmed she would appeal the sentence as she emotionally appeared on a video link in a court in the town of Szeged, near the Serbian border.

Prosecutors had previously said there were no grounds to charge Laszlo with a racially motivated hate crime.

Thousands of migrants passed through the Balkans and Hungary in 2015 as they tried to escape war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.

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