Osama Abdul Mohsen

Osama Abdul Mohsen (Osama Abdel-Muhsen Alghadab) is a 52 year old Syrian Arab refugee and football coach who became famous when he fell in an infamous incident on Hungarian-Serbian borders on September 8, 2015 near Röszke, Hungary. A Hungarian woman was blamed for tripping him, and as a result of the public outcry, the Spanish football club Real Madrid C.F. invited Osama Abdul Mohsen with his family to Spain and gave him job and apartment. The woman lost her job and became a target of blame.
The incident
A group of refugees broke the line of Hungarian Policemen and ran away. Video footage shows a blonde woman dressed in blue, carrying a camera, who was more or less hit by a young man running by her. She then "kicked" then next two persons running at and by her, another boy and a girl. None of them fell or even slowed down.
Other footage, probably taken several seconds later, show the woman and a man dressed in a grey shirt, carrying a camera, while the refugees run away, chased by some policemen. Mr. Mohsen, carrying his 7 year old son Zaid on his right arm, a black rucksack on his back plus a green bag on his left side, is held by a policeman, but then breaks free. The camerawoman sticks her leg out in front of him and he stumbles forward and falls down.
International press blaming the Hungarian woman
Apparently, the video footage taken by Stephan Richter of German TV RTL was shared by him on twitter, and went "viral". The woman was blamed for tripping the man. Soon she was identified as Petra Laszlo, a 40 year old mother working for Hungarian , which is described as right wing and pro Jobbik. Several "Petra Laszlo Shame Wall" pages showed up on Facebook.
The video apparently taken by the man in the grey shirt is . Pictures taken from the other angle by Marko Djurica of Reuters/Corbis describes the incident as "A migrant runs with a child before tripping and falling on TV camerawoman Laszlo" (dead link).
The woman was fired, and tried to apologize, which was rejected by Mr. Osama Abdel-Muhsen Alghadab according to Daily Mail:
Early life
Osama Abdul Mohsen was living in Syria until 2015 when he escaped with his family from war-torn Syria to Europe. He was coach of al-Fatwa Club in Syrian Deir ez-Zor, from 2004 - 2010. He has two sons, Ziad and Mohammed.
According to the Daily Mail interview, Mr Alghadab has four children (Mohammad, 16, Almuhannad, 18, Zaid and a 13-year-old daughter called Duaa), had a job supervising sports teachers in his hometown of Deir ez-Zor, and was also a coach at Al Fituwa Football Club before he and his wife Muntaha fled the civil war and ISIS and moved their family to Mesin in southern Turkey at the end of 2012.
First, his son Mohmmad made the trip to Germany. He followed with Zaid, leaving his wife and two of his children behind, by first travelling to Bodrum and paying a people smuggler about £800 for his seat on a rubber dinghy to Kos, Greece. Mr Alghadab and Zaid spent two days in Greece before making the journey through Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Austria - where they boarded a coach to the German border, arriving on the morning of September 12.
Shortly before the incident with the camerawoman, Mr Alghadab claims his son was deliberately tripped by a policeman. 'One of the policemen tripped my son but it wasn't as bad as the camerawoman,'
Accusation of terrorism
On September 12 2015, outspokenly pro-Assad Facebook groups allegedly connected to Syrian Christians published a screenshot of Osama Abdul Mohsen Facebook profile which they claimed would include a flag of al-Nusra Front—while in fact, as anyone can see by checking this screenshot, it contains a flag of the Free Syrian Army and, what non-Arabs might mistake as a flag, a simple calligraphic image of the ordinary Islamic creed, undersigned by Osama Abdul Mohsen’s own name. Later, an admin of the Democratic Union Party of Kurdistan (PYD) website published a statement about the alleged past of Osama Abdul Mohsen. He accused Osama Abdul Mohsen about terrorism, crimes against civilians and active participation in al-Nusra Front, in Syrian Civil War. This information was copy-shared by internet group Libery Lions connected to Kurdish militia. These sources accuse Osama Abdul Mohsen on his alleged participation in bloody unrest during football match in 2004, in Qamishlo where Syrian security forces killed 50 civilians.
Osama Abdul Mohsen denies terrorist ties. Syrian editor Fadel, who started this cause now says that he did not know, if Mohsen fight for Al Quaeda.

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