The city of Turin on Tuesday
awarded its Ethics and Sports prize to a Syrian refugee who was
deliberately tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman while fleeing a
police charge at the Serbian border.
Osama Abdul Moshen was running with his young son Zaid in
his arms when Petra Laszlo - who worked for the rightwing,
anti-immigrant Jobbik party's N1TV local TV station - stuck her
foot out and tripped him, making father and child crash to the
ground.
The incident was caught on camera, and the video went viral.
Laszlo was fired, and when members of Spain's Cenafe
national football coaching centre found out through the media
that Mohsen had been a coach for a first division club in Syria,
they offered him transportation, a place to stay, and a job as a
youth league coach.
"I dedicate this prize to all Syrians," said Moshen, who
was in Turin with Zaid and his teenage son Mohamed. His wife and
third child are still in a refugee camp in Turkey.
Moshen called for "coordinated European action" to deal
with the refugee crisis. Before that, the Syrian civil war must
be stopped, he said.
"Russia and Iran could have done so a long time ago by
forcing Assad to step aside," he said.
"The situation is a lot more difficult now".
Asked to comment on the November 13 Islamic terror attacks
in Paris that claimed 130 lives, Mohsen answered that "no Muslim
would accept the killing of a human being, because Islam is a
peaceful religion".
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