"As I watch the footage now, it's like I'm not watching myself. I honestly regret what I have done and take responsibility for it," wrote Petra Laszlo in a letter to Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet published on its website. 
 
 In the footage, which spread rapidly across the Internet earlier this week, Laszlo, 40, can be seen tripping a man sprinting with a child in his arms, and kicking another running child near the town of Roszke, close to the border with Serbia. 
 
 She was fired from her job at N1TV, an Internet-based television station close to Hungary's far-right Jobbik party, and also faces criminal charges for breaching the peace. 
 
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 She was detained for questioning by police on Thursday and later released. 
 
 "Only now could I get myself together enough to be able to write. I'm in a state of shock because of what I did and what has been done to me," she wrote to the newspaper. 
 
 "I was recording with the camera when hundreds of migrants broke through the police cordon, one of them ran into me and I panicked. 
 
 "I was afraid as they were rushing toward me and then something snapped in my head. As I had my camera in my hand I couldn't see who was coming at me, my only thought was that I was going to be attacked, and that I had to defend myself," she added. 
 
 "As a mother I'm particularly sorry that fate had it that a child was running at me, and I wasn't able to sense that. 
 
 "It's not easy to make a good decision when you're in a panic." 
 
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 A "Wall of Shame" page on Facebook featuring pictures, videos and commentaries linked to the incident had gathered more than 35,000 likes by Friday. 
 
 "You are a disgrace to your profession," was the typical sentiment from one user. 
 
 Laszlo said she did not "deserve either the political witchhunt that is going on against me or the smears or the many death threats". 
 
 "I'm just a woman, now unemployed mother of small children, who made a bad decision in a panic situation." ||||| 20-second video of N1TV’s Petra László tripping over man carrying child in his arms – and kicking young girl and boy – goes viral and horrifies country 
 
 A camera operator for a Hungarian nationalist television channel closely linked to the country’s far-right Jobbik party has been filmed kicking two refugee children and tripping up a man at the border hotspot of Rőszke on Tuesday. 
 
 
 
 Petra László of N1TV was filming a group of refugees running away from police officers, when a man carrying a child in his arms ran in front of her. László stuck her leg out in front of the man, causing him to fall on the child he was carrying. He turned back and remonstrated with László, who continued filming. 
 
 A 20-second video of the scene was posted on Twitter by Stephan Richter, a reporter for the German television channel RTL and soon went viral, leading to the creation of a Facebook group “The Petra László Wall of Shame”. 
 
 Hungary’s leading news website Index had also caught László kicking a young girl and boy. 
 
 
 
 N1TV said László had been dismissed due to “unacceptable behaviour”. The channel’s editor in chief Szabolcs Kisberk said in a statement posted on the station’s website: “The camerawoman’s employment has today been terminated with immediate effect, the case is now closed for us.” 
 
 As well as speeches made by the Jobbik leader Gábor Vona, the channel’s website also contains articles with such headlines as “migrants have swarmed all over the shops” and “Guantanamo = Hungary?” 
 
 Hundreds of angry comments appeared on the Facebook group set up to condemn László’s actions on Tuesday evening. 
 
 
 
 Opposition parties Együtt-PM and the Democratic Coalition have said that they will initiate charges of violence against a member of the community, which is punishable by up to five years in prison, against László.
– Despite the general opinion after a video surfaced of her kicking Syrian migrants, Hungarian Petra Laszlo says she is "not a heartless, child-kicking, racist camera-person." Rather, "something snapped in my head" when hundreds of migrants broke through a police barricade not far from the Serbian border in Roszke, Hungary, and "one of them ran into me," Laszlo writes in a letter, per AFP and New York Times. "As I had my camera in my hand I couldn't see who was coming at me, my only thought was that I was going to be attacked, and that I had to defend myself." Laszlo, who was filmed kicking a child and tripping a man with a child in his arms, says, "As a mother I'm particularly sorry that fate had it that a child was running at me, and I wasn't able to sense that." She adds, "I honestly regret what I have done and take responsibility for it," but she says she doesn't "deserve either the political witch hunt that is going on against me or the smears or the many death threats … It's not easy to make a good decision when you're in a panic." Laszlo has since been fired from Internet-based station N1TV and faces criminal charges of breaching the peace.