[6] On 8 September 2015, Petra László was working as a camerawoman at a holding camp near the border between Hungary and Serbia, documenting the ongoing migrant crisis when hundreds of migrants including Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fled police at a makeshift relocation camp in Röszke, just a few hundred yards from Hungary's border with Serbia.

[7][8] A video was posted on Twitter by German reporter Stephan Richter, showing a woman who was later identified as László "kicking a girl and tripping up the man carrying a child".

In response to the video, László's employer, N1TV (also known as Nemzeti TV) issued a statement saying, "An employee of N1TV today showed unacceptable behaviour at the Röszke collection point.

"[1] László later wrote to the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, stating that she was frightened by the rush of people and panicked, thinking she was going to be attacked.

[15] Zsolt Kopasz, Chief Prosecutor, said in a press release that: The violent actions of the accused did not inflict injury, however her behaviour was capable of provoking indignation and outcry in the members of the public present at the scenes.The press release stated that László kicked a young man and minor girl, and "kicked towards a migrant who was running with a child in his arms with the intention to trip him", but that her leg did not reach him.

[16] On 21 October 2015, László stated she was considering moving to Russia following her trial in Hungary,[17] and that she planned to file two lawsuits, the first against Osama Abdul Mohsen, the man whom she attempted to trip in the video, for changing his testimony, and Facebook for refusing to remove threatening groups on their website.

[8] Interviewed in 2017 after László was initially sentenced, Mohsen said, "I don’t want her to go to prison because she has a child, a home and husband but I think it’s good for refugees in Europe as a message.

[20][21] In November 2015, he declared that he wanted to leave Spain and settle down in Austria or in Germany, to organize a football team recruited from Syrian refugees.

At the same time, the court declared her actions to be unlawful and “morally disapprovable”, adding that they constituted rowdy behaviour, which counts as a misdemeanor.