Happily Ever After: Tripped Syrian dad offered employment in Spain
And now Mohsen, along with his 7-year-old son Zaid, are expected to arrive in Madrid by train on Wednesday night, accompanied by an Arabic-speaker from the CENAFE coaching school in Getafe.
After travelling to Germany from Hungary, global media revealed Mohsen as a football coach, attracting interest from the football world.
The video shows Mohsen carrying his seven-year-old son Zaid as they break out of a Hungarian camp with dozens of other desperate migrants trying to get to Germany on September 8. The reporter who tripped and kicked the migrants is the subject of a criminal investigation, the MTI news agency reported last week.
“This is another step towards showing the solidarity of Getafe in the face of the social drama we are seeing”, she said, adding that negotiations are already underway to make the promise reality and that the local authority will give the father and son a flat in the town.
A Syrian refugee has been given his dream job in Spain.
She had worked for Hungarian channel N1TV – also known as Nemzeti TV – which describes itself as a channel that stands for “national issues”. Galán, the CENAFE president, also plans to bring in Mohsen’s wife and two other children who are now in Turkey, according to reports.
“Hopefully this will serve as an example to the rest of Europe”, said school president Miguel Galan.
“When we saw Mohsen’s story published in the newspapers we felt very bad about it”, explained Galan.
“The first thing is to get him settled”, said Luis Miguel Pedraza, who works at CENAFE.
Mohsen arrived in Munich with Zaid, after escaping the war that has been raging in Syria since 2011. The camerawoman, Petra Laszlo, was sacked and later apologised.
“The journalist’s kick was scary and hard”, he told El Mundo.