Zurich police on Thursday were investigating an alleged skinhead assault on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins and left her scarred with the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party. Details of the attack shocked the Swiss public and prompted Brazilian officials to suggest it was prompted by xenophobia.
Zurich police said details were not yet clear but a man called Monday evening to report that a woman at a Zurich train station needed help. When police found her, she had the letters carved into her skin and told them she had suffered a miscarriage after the attack.
Brazil's Foreign Ministry and Brazilian media reported that three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on his forehead, attacked the woman outside a local train station in Zurich while she was heading home. She had been speaking in Portuguese to her mother on a cell phone when she was accosted.
Brazil's foreign ministry expressed "great concern" about the attack in a hastily arranged meeting Thursday in Brasilia with a Swiss diplomats. Foreign Minister Celso Amorim urged Swiss investigators to act with "transparency" so both countries can learn exactly what happened,"There is a very strong appearance of xenophobia," Amorim said. "The person was not robbed, apparently she was not raped. That shows there was another motivation."
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