One of the leading Hungarian broadcasters has fired a camerawoman after she was shown tripping a fleeing refugee man who was carrying his young son in his arms. The broadcaster and many Hungarian news outlets have been accused of highly negative coverage of the influx of refugees. The camerawoman has been identified as Petra László of N1TV.
The man can be seen breaking away from a police officer with his child in his arms when László sticks out her leg to trip him.
On its Web site, the TV station posted a statement that read: “Today, a N1TV colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roeszke reception center. The cameraman’s employment was terminated with immediate effect.”
The incident follows tough talk from Prime Minister Viktor Orban in criticizing Germany and other nations for opening up borders to refugees.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-migrants-scorecard-20150908-story.html
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are nearly 4.1 million registered refugees from Syria. Some countries have opened their doors, hearts and pocketbooks to varying degrees. Others have hoisted barriers to the migrant tide.
LEBANON has taken in 1.1 million registered refugees and others who are not registered. Government officials put the overall number at 1.5 million. With an estimated population of about 4.5 million, Lebanon has the highest per-capita number of Syrian refugees, accounting for about 1 in 4 people in the country. With half a million Palestinians remaining in refugee camps established six decades ago, the government has been reluctant to set up formal refugee camps for the Syrians.
JORDAN says it has taken in 1.4 million Syrians, although the UNHCR counts 629,266 registered refugees. Jordan prides itself on its hospitality toward these and other refugees, but the high numbers — about 20% of the population, based on government figures — have taxed the small kingdom, already struggling with strained resources such as energy and water.
TURKEY has taken in the most refugees of any country and is home to more than 1.9 million Syrians who have crossed the border. About a third live in government-run camps near the border whereas others have dispersed. According to rights organizations, the Syrians in Turkey do not enjoy full access to legal safeguards protecting refugees, but in recent years the UNHCR has been given more access to the refugee camps.
GREECE does not share a border with Syria, but the relatively short sail from Turkey has made it a prime destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and other countries. Nearly a quarter of a million refugees have landed on Greek shores this year after perilous sea journeys, overwhelming a number of islands where physical and administrative infrastructure are insufficient. Most aim to use Greece as a land bridge through the Balkans and into Northern Europe, but a small number have been given temporary housing in Athens.
ITALY is the second immediate destination of most Mediterranean migrant voyages and more than 110,000 refugees have arrived there this year. As with Greece, many opt to use the country as a bridge to wealthier, northern countries.
GERMANY is the main destination for many hopefuls. From 2011 to this year, Germany received nearly 100,000 applications for asylum, but 100,000 more reached Germany last month alone as the crisis mushroomed. Europe’s strongest economy is bracing for 800,000 asylum seekers this year and cautions that other European Union partners must shoulder the burden or the entire open-border policy of the European bloc could be in danger.
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These are some of the countries that have helped the refugees in varying degrees. More countries and their responses are listed in the article.
The Germans are going to NOT be so welcoming when the numbers keep skyrocketing up with over one million refugees. They need to be deported back to some other Arab country ASAP.
Randyjet, no I would absolutely NOT say they have a RIGHT o demand where they want to be a refugee. It think it’s far more complicated than that. We don’t actually KNOW for sure why they are in Europe instead of Arab countries.
I guess Annie has not been watching the news. We DO know they are DEMANDING to go to Germany. We know why they are not going to their fellow Arabs because they will not get a job, housing, free food and education, free health care etc.. By the way, I did experience what these refugees are experiencing upon entry to some of these countries. When I took leave and toured Europe, I went to Scandinavia, this during the Vietnam War. Before they would let me into Denmark, I was subjected to grilling by the border guards because they wanted to make sure I had enough money to LEAVE and would not claim refugee status from the USAF. I just wanted to be a normal tourist, but they sure treated me rather badly because I was a young white American military guy. If I had been so inclined to do so, they would have kicked me off the train and thrown me back across the border into the waiting arms of the German and military police.
Germany has a good social safety net, a good economy, good healthcare and a hard working industrious generous people who love unions. There are angry resentful ignorant people who could learn a lesson from the German people.
Annie, I do not have to walk in the shoes of those people because I would be fighting for my country or the group that I thought I should support. THAT is THEIR responsibility as human beings. THEY put themselves in their current position, so it is not our responsibility to bail them out for their poor choices. They also have no claim on anything other than taking refuge in an Arab country. It is not their place to demand gourmet meals in DP camps, do they? Yet you would say they have the right to demand that Germany or some other weathier country take them as a right. That is absurd and inhumane to ALL persons concerned.
These “refugees” are headed toward countries w/ good dole. Obama will be welcoming them here soon. I’m sure he can get them qualified for SS Disability like he has so many Americans. There is a proposed bill by a Dem Congressman from California that will meld the SS pension and disability funds. You see, the disability fund is out of money because Obama has opened the spigot for people who don’t deserve it. Melding the pension fund, which has funding for 30 years or so, w/ the disability, will create a crisis, requiring huge tax increases on the people who work for a living. With high crime, poor jobs, people on the dole, look for a bloodbath for Dems in 2016. High crime is the killer. Republicans always do well when crime is up.
Annie, I was friends with a professor whose wife grew up in the Soviet Zone, and while she hated it, especially the schools, she did quite well. She got a good education, plenty of food, something most people in Europe did not enjoy, and she did not have to put up with it very long when Austria was restored to its independence, and the so called Iron Curtain pulled back when all powers withdrew and mandated Austrian neutrality.
Regarding the Iron Curtain speech, that was an outright lie on the part of Churchill since most of the countries had native governments except for East Germany at the time he gave the speech. For those interested in how the Cold War started and the Soviet responses, I recommend the book, MI-6, which details the war they instituted against the Soviets as soon as the shooting stopped. They flew in agents to recruit spies, and to blow up resources, and do propoganda against the Soviets. That is the reason the CIA harbored and protected war criminals so that they could find out who the Nazi collaborators were and use them against the Soviets.
Annie, While I hate the current government of Hungary, they do have a point that they have the right to say who may enter. Serbia is simply retuning the favor Hungary did when they bombed the hell out of Serbia when NATO broke the Helsinki Treaty and attacked it and dismembered it. For starters, Serbia should send those refugees to Kosovo since they have lots of room after NATO ethnically cleansed Kosovo of over 200,000 Serbs from their own country, and gave it is independence. Of course, the so called refugess do NOT want to go to a Muslim country, they want to go to western Europe where they can have a richer life at others expense. When you are a refugee, you take what you can get, NOT what YOU want. Let’s be real here. Those refugees are quite particular about what they will accept. it is like being in refugee camp and demanding a five course meal, instead of what food you are given. Sorry, but while their plight is bad, THEY are in part responsible for it. Let us NOT forget that fact.
Randyjet, I understand that Austria didn’t have clean hands. Nevertheless, as a child from a refugee family I am grateful to have been a refugee in the American Zone in Austria as opposed to the poor devils that got stuck behind the Iron Curtain.
why don’t they go the the meatballs in italy to their own kind
Maybe what these refugees “covet” is life itself. My family were refugees from Eastern Europe, taken in by the Austrians. I think it’s pretty easy to disparage these people, but it doesn’t show our better nature when we do it. Walk a mile in the shoes of one of these refugees…
baggie annali the dam austrians robbed the Hungarian refugees in 56 go to hell kraut
What was she trying to accomplish by tripping him? I don’t get it. Tripping him was her response to the sudden wave of refugees?
they all should have been shot like they do in alot of other countries especially the rich m e
Annie, Austria had NO say in admitting refugees after WWII since they were under joint Soviet,US, UK administration. The refugees were under the UN refugee commission and it was THEY who deserve credit for handling the millions of DPs. The Austrians were also willing participants in the Final Solution, so there were not too many Jews left at that point. The Red Army has to be given credit for saving the remaining Jews in Poland since they brutally put down the pogroms the Poles had going against the Jews after WWII, especially in Krakow. The remaining Austrians would have loved to do the same in large measures, but they were eager to try and forget their part in genocide. Remember Waldheim?
The fact is that this flood is FAR different from the situation after WWII. All of those people were European, reasonably well educated, and were kicked out of their homes by the UN. The UN has not had a thing to do with the war in Syria or Iraq. It does have a responsibility for refugees though. So if they cannot keep them in DP camps, they need to be relocated to other nearby countries that are similar to their own. The Afghans have no such claims to refugee status since their country is relatively peaceful. They are simply drawn to better economic opportunity. THAT is not a valid claim for asylum.
Randyjet, I agree that the places that should be taking them in are the Arab countries, but for whatever reasons, they aren’t. The refugees don’t want to or cannot get to these Arab countries. Maybe it’ll be up to European countries to ship these refugees to other countries that will take them in. The U.S. and other nations need to make it clear to the Arab countries that unless they help or take charge of this refugee crisis, we won’t do anything for them in future. I don’t know if Germany or Austria is encouraging them to come, perhaps they are reacting to Hungary’s shameful treatment of these refugees.
They should fire the parasitic “refugee” or the Saudi Arabians, Qataris, Kuwaitis et al. who refuse to take in their fellow Arab/Mooselimbs.
This “refugee” charade has go to end at some point. These folks have a country. They need to stay home and work on it.
Every person in the world is an American-In-Waiting – waiting for their “free stuff.”
Every person in the world is not a constitutional burden of the American taxpayer. No matter what the collectivist globalists dictate.
These people must NOT COVET what others have.
WHATEVER YOU HAVE IS ENOUGH.
What can be done is to return them to the Arab countries such as Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, where there are no wars going on. It is amazing that western Europe is the only place of refuge that they will accept. I guess that they think the rest of their Arab brother countries are beneath them, and of course do not have the welfare benies they want. So to me it is simply foolish to encourage them in coming since there are at least another two million who are similarly caught in the situation. The Gulf States have more than enough room and wealth to take ALL of them. Why aren’t they being placed in the spotlight? It will be cost efficient, have less change to adapt to in Arab countries, and more humane. So put up more fences and patrols and if needed lethal force. To continue this absurd demand simply feeds the war and entices more “refugees”. Is a draft dodger a legitimate refugee? Canada does not think so since they changed their laws as a result of Vietnam.
I was born in Austria, the country that took in hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans and Jews after the war. There were many Displaced Person’s camps thought Austria. Kudos to Austria, I’m proud of my birth country.
WTF do you expect from Hungarians?
What a nasty piece of work that woman i, it’s good they fired her. I do think Germany and Austria are to be commended for taking in so many of these refugees. Hungary should be ashamed of itself. This is truly a humanitarian crisis, but what can be done other than giving these refugees sanctuary?