Skinheads attacked pregnant Brazilian?

A Brazilian women living in Switzerland claimed to have been the victim of a terrible racial attack.

26-year-old lawyer Paula Oliveira said that three skinheads assaulted her outside a local train station in Zurich and scarred the initials of the far-right Swiss People's Party on her stomach and legs. The pregnant Oliveira claimed that the attack caused her to miscarry twins that she had in her womb.

Brazil’s government is looking into allegations made by Olivera:

Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said the charge d’affaires of the Swiss embassy had been summoned to receive the request.

"We can’t draw any conclusions yet, but we have asked the Swiss authorities to conduct their investigation with more transparency so we can have all the information," he told reporters...

He said Switzerland should carry out an exhaustive investigation "not only for the person attacked, but also for the good relations between Brazil and Switzerland."

Olivera’s ordeal has outraged people in her native Brazil including her father who said that “what they did to my daughter is like a horror movie.”

Image- AP
Online Sources- canoe.ca, Montreal Gazette, BBC News, JTA

Argentina: Skinheads stage Hitler birthday concert

Argentine authorities are investigating a secret concert organized by neo-Nazi groups in honor of Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Several fascist groups- including one which celebrates “Dirty War” disappearances- masterminded the gig according to government officials.

Prominent members of Latin America’s Jewish community were disgusted over the pro-Hitler concert:

The president of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and the Latin American representative for the Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed their “repudiation” at a recital to “commemorate” Adolf Hitler’s birthday by Nazi organizations… - [ed. personal translation]

Argentine human rights groups have worked diligently to try to bring Nazi criminals hiding in the country to justice. A 2002 Christian Science Monitor piece said that neo-Nazi and other far-right political groups have increased their online presence in Argentina.

Sources (English)- News.com.au, ABC News, Christian Science Monitor

Sources (Spanish)- Clarin

Image- Telegraph.co.uk