Camerawoman who kicked migrants takes film award

Hungarian media said Wednesday that the camerawoman who was filmed last year kicking and trying to trip migrants near Hungary’s border with Serbia has accepted an award for a documentary.
According to Hungarian media, Petra Laszlo, credited as the editor of the 32-minute film “Nemzetidegen” (“Foreign To The Nation“), accepted the award last week at a film festival. The documentary, about a freedom fighter in Hungary’s 1956 revolution, was written and directed by her husband.
Laszlo, who has otherwise been out of the public eye for months, was indicted last month on charges of breaching the peace for her actions in September 2015.
Opposition parties protested the award for the film, which received public funds.
Deputy parliamentary speaker Sandor Lezsak, a member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, was shown congratulating Laszlo in photos and video in local reports.
Separately, British dentists have rejected a lawmaker’s suggestion that young migrants should have their teeth tested to ensure they are really children.
A group of 14 young migrants arrived in London this week from a camp in France, to be reunited with relatives in Britain.
Officials say they were aged between 14 and 17, but Conservative legislator David Davies said they “don’t look like ‘children.’“
He said British people “want to help children but we don’t want to be taken for a free ride,” and said dental X-rays could be used to determine their age.
The British Dental Association said Wednesday that the method was inaccurate for assessing age, adding that “it is both inappropriate and unethical to take radiographs of people when there is no health benefit for them.”
Also on Wednesday, Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party said it will only support the government’s constitutional amendment opposing the mass settlement of migrants if it also bans a disputed plan offering residency permits to foreigners buying a special state bond for 300,000 euros ($330,000).
Jobbik president Gabor Vona said that his party wants “to protect Hungary from all kinds of settlements.”
Vona’s announcement could make it harder for Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party to secure the two-thirds majority needed in the legislature to approve the amendment.
Plans to amend the constitution were announced by Orban after an Oct. 2 referendum against any future European Union plans to relocate asylum-seekers. The referendum was invalid due to low turnout but 98 percent of the valid votes supported the government position.

Source: Arab News