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World Jewish News
Brazil sets anti-neo-Nazi commission
07.06.2009
Brazil has established a special commission to investigate neo-Nazi incidents in the country.
The Chamber of Deputies, which includes 513 representatives of 26 Brazilian states, created the commission on Tuesday following a series of recent neo-Nazi incidents in the country.
Last month, Brazilian police thwarted a plan by a neo-Nazi group called New Land to bomb two synagogues in the city of Porto Alegre. In addition, a large amount of neo-Nazi materials have been seized mainly in the Southern states, which are known to have a large concentration of Brazilians of both German and Arab descent.
The commission will be led by Congressman Marcelo Itagiba, who is also the author of Project Bill 987, which would consider denial of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity a crime of racism.
"The creation of this external commission is of great importance for the parliament to follow the development of the investigations, which need to generate a harsh response to the neo-Nazis who intend to articulate and disseminate hatred across our national territory," said Itagiba, who is Jewish.
The Brazil Israelite Confederation, the country's umbrella for Jewish organizations, praised the initiative. "We need a broad mobilization in our society to fight racism and violence and to protect our several communities from racial hatred, as well as to preserve our democracy," said Claudio Lottenberg, the confederation's president.
Источник: JTA
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