Police paramedic accused of refusing help during gay parade riot
A police investigation has been launched against a member of the Hungary police ambulance corps for allegedly refusing to assist an elderly diabetic woman during this year's Gay pride march, reports hetek.hu.
The woman, a mother of one of the marchers, allegedly asked the staff of the police ambulance for help when she was struck down by tear gas used by police against anti-gay counter-demonstrators.
But the ambulance worker she approached simply told her, "There is plenty of air here!" And when others told the worker that the woman needed help because of her diabetes, they were "scornfully" told that the woman should not have come to march. The woman was eventually assisted by another first aid provider.
The paramedic under investigation is a police employee, and does not work for the National Paramedics' Service (OMSZ), and reportedly said that she was there to assist injured police, rather than "such people," meaning the marchers.
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