"Neo-Nazi attack" on Brazilian woman in Switzerland yet another "hate crime" HOAX

Police say Brazilian woman invented racist attack

The Scotsman | 14 February 2009

A BRAZILIAN woman who claimed to have miscarried twins after being attacked by knife-wielding Swiss skinheads was never pregnant, police said yesterday.

Investigators also said Paula Oliveira, 26, probably carved the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party into her own skin.

The woman had claimed in a newspaper she was three months pregnant and had miscarried after being attacked outside a Zurich railway station. She said three skinheads cut her stomach and legs with "SVP", the initials of Schweizerische Volkspartei, Switzerland's main right-wing party, which has a hardline stance against immigrants.

However, the party is part of Switzerland's broad coalition government and has never had links to neo-Nazism.

Walter Baer, head of forensic medicine at Zurich University, said: "Any experienced forensic doctor would not hesitate to assume that this was a case of self-infliction."

Jews caught in yet another "hate crime" hoax; spray-painting swastikas on Jewish buildings in MD

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_county/bal-vandalism1007,0,255613.story

3 arrested after anti-Semitic messages found in PikesvilleBy a Baltimore Sun reporter October 7, 2008 Two men and a boy were arrested today after anti-Semitic spray-painted messages were discovered on the exterior signs of two Jewish institutions in Pikesville over the weekend, Baltimore County police said.One of the men is a member of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in the 5500 block of Slade Ave,. where the word Nazi and a swastika were spray-painted on signs, said Cpl. Michael Hill, a police spokesman. Signs at Beth Tfiloh Community School in the 3300 block of Old Court Road were similarly defaced.The incidents are not being treated as hate crimes, Hill said, but he would not discuss a motive for the vandalism. Police are withholding the identities of the men until they are charged, he said. They could face misdemeanor charges of destruction of property and damaging property of a religious entity, Hill said.An officer responding to an unrelated incident noticed a car leaving the Beth Tfiloh Community School parking lot about 3 a.m. Sunday and police were later able to locate the vehicle and its three occupants, Hill said.Black paint was used in both incidents, which occurred less than a mile apart. The incidents took place days before the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and had been investigated as possible hate crimes.