Pregnant Brazilian Woman Miscarries Twins After Skinheads Carve Racist Symbols On Her Body
13 February 2009, 2:42 PM. By Camilla Rowan
A pregnant Brazilian lawyer living in Switzerland was attacked by neo-Nazi thugs this past Monday as she waited in a train station. The thugs beat her and carved the initials of a right-wing political party into her legs and stomach, leaving her with over a hundred cuts on her body.
Paula Oliveira was pregnant with twins but she says that after the traumatic attack she miscarried in the train bathroom. Police were called in by a bystander who saw the attack happening but by the time they arrived the three alleged attackers had fled. Oliveira was taken to the hospital, where she was treated for over one hundred cut marks to her stomach and legs.
The Brazilian press is portraying the incident as racially motivated, since Oliveira said she was speaking Portugese on her cell phone just before the attack happened and the skinhead trio who attacked her carved the initials “SVP” onto her, repeatedly. “SVP” is thought to stand for “Schweizerische Volkspartei,” the right-wing political group known to be strongly anti-immigration. A spokesman for the SVP denounced the attack and defended the party, denying it had any connections with neo-Nazis. Despite that, the Brazilian foreign minister expressed outrage at the way the SVP, and Swiss authorities in general, were responding to the incident.
Apparently the attack was kept quiet and the police did not make a public appeal for information on the attackers until after the Brazilian press reported on the incident and started the storm of outrage there.
Oliveira has returned to Brazil in the meantime, to be with her family.
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Pregnant Brazilian attacked with knife by neo-Nazis in Switzerland [The Telegraph]
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Hi,
This is truly a tragedy. Words cannot express how sad this really is.
-Crissy
Breakthrough
This is now being reported as a fraud. Which is why you shouldn’t rush into print. Instead of an outrage it is a pathetic attempt by an individual to …who knows? See AP Report following:
Swiss police: Woman may have faked skinhead attack
The Associated Press
ZURICH
The Brazilian woman who claimed to lose her unborn twins in a skinhead attack was not pregnant and probably carved the initials of Switzerland’s main right-wing party into her own skin, investigators said Friday.
Police said in a statement that 26-year-old Paula Oliveira was not three months pregnant Monday, when she claimed that an attack by three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on the back of his head, caused her to have a miscarriage.
Zurich University forensic medicine chief Walter Baer said “any experienced forensic doctor would not hesitate to assume that this was a case of self-infliction.”
All of the wounds were reachable by hand, and none were severe, he said. Areas particularly sensitive for women _ the breasts, navel and outer genitals _ were not injured, he said.
He added, however, that investigations were still ongoing.
Police said Oliveira claimed she was attacked outside a Zurich train station, and that the assailants cut the initials of Switzerland’s main right-wing party into her stomach and legs.
Pictures of her scarred body have appeared in newspapers and Brazil’s Foreign Ministry had raised the possibility that she was the victim of an anti-foreigner attack.
The ministry had no immediate reaction to the police report Friday.
If indeed this is a fraud the Brazilian press will have eggs on their face.