Brazil – A Violent Attack on three Jewish Youths in Pôrto Alegre

May 8, 2005

Antisemitic incidents, Assaults
Brazil

Pôrto Alegre – Three Jewish youths were attacked by several skinheads brandishing knives near a bar in downtown Pôrto Alegre.

According to one witness, Alan Floyd Gipsztejn, Edson Nieves Santanna Júnior and Rodrigo Fontella Matheus, were brutally attacked by skinheads, a neo-Nazi group, in the Cidade Baixa neighborhood, a bohemian area of the city. Two of them were wearing a kippah at the time of the attack.

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