A Brazilian woman has admitted faking an attack bySwiss skinheads and lying about miscarrying twins, according toprosecutors in Zurich.**
Paula Oliveira, a 26-year-old lawyer, had said she was attackedby three knife-wielding skinheads near the city, causing themiscarriage.
But prosecutors say that while being interrogated last week, she acknowledged she had lied.
Police had already suggested she was not pregnant, contrary to her claims.
Reports of the alleged attack had caused shock inBrazil, where it had been widely reported along with graphic images ofthe wounds inflicted on Ms Oliveira.
Photos of Ms Oliveira showed her stomach and legs with some 100cuts from a carpet knife, and the initials of the right-wing SwissPeople’s Party (SVP) carved into her body.
Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim had described the assault as “grave” and “shocking”.
But doubts arose when Zurich University forensic medicine chiefWalter Baer said: “Any experienced forensic doctor would not hesitateto assume that this was a case of self-infliction.”
All of the wounds were reachable by hand, and none were severe, he said.
Having been confronted with this evidence, Ms Oliveira admittedno attack had taken place and she had cut her own skin, and confirmedshe was not three-months pregnant, police said.
“The woman, who alleged that she was assaulted, has admitted topolice that she had given false evidence,” read a police statement.
Prosecutors are now investigating Ms Oliveira on suspicion of misleading police.
She could face up to three years in prison if convicted.
In the mean time, they have blocked her passport to prevent her leaving the country.
**Consider for a moment if this “lawyer” had fabricated a story about blacks or Muslims attacking her, whether or not the term ‘hate crime’ would have applied to her testimony.
She obviously got this idea from the media and seats of “higherlearning” that has been hostile to European derived people for decades.