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To: elmatador who wrote (46382)	2/14/2009 1:46:46 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218682

The Swiss have sent Brazil a video of Paula Oliveira in a mental hospital. The Swiss Ambassador asked Lula to send a plane to fetch her home for treatment. Lula said, "Sorry for your trouble, we'll send a cargo jet." It turns out she had a childhood crush on the top Nazi official in hiding who lived next door to her in Sao Paulo when she was growing up. She couldn't get a work permit for Berlin so acted out her self-mutilation in Zurich, which was as close as she could get to her beloved's childhood home. .

To: elmatador who wrote (46382)	2/19/2009 5:32:08 PM
From: 8bits	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218682

This is a wonderful outcome for the Swiss to save face. They know it is all a matter of a figure. Why would the Swiss have to pay her off to save face..? It wasn't a Swiss government official who allegedly assaulted her. Also the father of the children, the medical staff before and after the assault would have to be bribed along with the investigating officers. If the accusation was true I would be deeply sympathetic to her but Occam's razor suggests that she faked the attack. Some updates: google.com Prosecutor: Brazilian admits faking Swiss attack 6 hours ago ZURICH (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday that a Brazilian woman has admitted faking an attack by Swiss skinheads and lying about miscarrying twins. The Zurich prosecutor's office said 26-year-old Paula Oliveira acknowledged in an interrogation nearly a week earlier that she had lied. Oliveira had claimed she was attacked outside a Zurich train station by three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on the back of his head, and that the assailants cut the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party into her stomach and legs, causing her to miscarry. Pictures of her scarred body appeared in newspapers and Brazil's Foreign Ministry had raised the possibility that she was the victim of a xenophobic attack. But after a series of tests, police said that Oliveira was not three months pregnant as she claimed, and Zurich University forensic medicine chief Walter Baer called it a "textbook case" of self-mutilation. Confronted with the evidence, Oliveira admitted Feb. 13 that no attack had taken place and that she had cut her own skin, the prosecutor's office said. She also admitted that she was not pregnant. The Swiss weekly "Weltwoche" first reported that she had admitted faking the attack. On Wednesday, Zurich prosecutors opened an investigation into Oliveira and ordered her passport and legal papers blocked. They are now investigating Oliveira's motive, how premeditated her acts were and whether she had any accomplices, the prosecutor's office said. Initial reports of Oliveira's claims shocked the Swiss public and outraged Brazilians, whose President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the purported attack. He later backtracked. Last year, an 18-year-old woman in Germany was convicted of faking a neo-Nazi attack by carving a swastika into her skin. In October, a volunteer for John McCain's presidential campaign agreed to enter a probation program for falsely reporting that a Barack Obama supporter robbed and assaulted her and scratched a "B" on her cheek.