Article: Attacked woman wasn't pregnant, maybe cut herself

The Brazilian woman who claimed to lose her unborn twins in a Swiss skinhead attack was not pregnant and probably carved the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party into her own skin, investigators said Friday.

Police said in a statement that 26-year-old Paula Oliveira was not three months pregnant Monday, when she claimed an attack by three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on the back of his head, caused her to have a miscarriage.

Zurich University forensic medicine chief Walter Baer said "any experienced forensic doctor would not hesitate to assume that this was a case of self-infliction."

All of the wounds were reachable by hand, and none ...

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