The Syrian refugee who was tripped up by a Hungarian camerawoman says he cannot forgive her.
Osama Abdel-Muhsen Alghadab was holding his seven-year-old son, Zaid, in his arms when he was tripped up by Petra Laslo.
The refugee, now in Germany, says, ‘How can I forgive her?’ He was tripped over after making a desperate journey from war-torn Deir ez-Zor in Syria. The father of four said, ‘There were thousands of people and they were holding us there until a coach came to take us to the border. It was a very small area with a huge crowd.
‘People started to lose patience and wanted to walk the 10km to the border – the police were standing there to stop people going.‘It was chaotic, people started to push. I didn’t see where it came from, I didn’t know if it was a camerawoman or a policeman. I just felt myself falling to the ground.’
‘We had a normal life until the war happened in our area. We stayed for a while and waited but after the big destruction we fled. We went to Turkey at the end of 2012.’
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