The headquarters of the SOMOS Group – Communication, Health and Sexuality, in Porto Alegre – was the victim of graffiti by a neo-Nazi group. The attack occurred in the early hours of January 21, 2009, when the entity's facade was spray-painted with three swastika signs.
The Group's management contacted the Civil Police, registered a police report and has already informed the Citizenship and Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Sul.
For Alexandre Böer, member of the entity's board of directors and director of ABGLT for the South Region, the violence demonstrates how much still needs to be done in the quest to guarantee equality among the country's citizens. "In times of the search for peace, of the fight for Human Rights, in which we have tried to guarantee the recognition of equality among Brazilian citizens, being a victim of such violence denotes how far we still have to go," he said in a statement.
