Petra Laszlo tripping incident

The Petra László tripping incident was an incident that took place in Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 when Syrian refugees began pouring over the Hungarian border.
The incident was covered by several news outlets around the world and László was fired from her job.
László's employer, N1TV, also known as Nemzeti TV, issued a statement following the incident, "An employee of N1TV today showed unacceptable behaviour at the Roszke collection point," N1TV said. "We have terminated the contract of the camera woman with immediate effect today." and then threatened to sue the Syrian man she had tripped and Facebook.
László later told a Russian newspaper that after her upcoming criminal trial in Hungary that stemmed from the incident she was considering moving to Russia. László also told the same Russian paper she was planning to file two lawsuits when her trial is over, the first to sue the refugee, Osama Abdul Mohsen, for allegedly changing his testimony to police, and Facebook for allegedly refusing to remove threatening groups on their website.
Mohsen, a professional soccer coach from the eastern province of Deir al-Zour,
Later in September 2015, Mohsen, who is also known as Osama al-Ghadab, based on the Arabic word for "rage", when two of his sons and he arrived in Spain and were given accommodations by a Spanish soccer school, and then was he made a guest of honor by his favorite soccer club, Real Madrid, rumors appeared online on social networks that he had expressed support for the Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group linked to Al Qaeda that was designated a terrorist group by the United States in 2012.<ref name=NT/>
The rumors appeared to be based on misinterpretations of two Facebook posts on Mohsen’s profile page: a September 13th photo of a black banner with a Muslim declaration of faith known as the Shahada, that says "There is no god but God, and Mohammad is his prophet;' and a status update from late in the year 2013 in which Mohsen expressed admiration for the Sunni Muslim rebels that were fighting the Assad government.<ref nameNT/> The image has since been removed from Facebook.<ref nameNT/>
In a telephone interview, Mohsen, 51, claimed he never expressed support for the Nusra Front, but been part of peaceful demonstrations against the Assad government in 2011 and resigned from a position with the government’s sports federation before leaving Deir al-Zour two years ago when "the situation deteriorated."<ref name=NT/> Mohsen added, "I hate violence; that’s why I decided to leave Deir al-Zour," he said. "I never joined any faction."<ref name=NT/>

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