A forensic medical report has contradicted claims by a Sweden Democrat politician that he was attacked in his home by two masked men who carved a swastika into his forehead.
According to the report, there are strong indications that Malmö council candidate David von Arnold Antoni may have inflicted the wound on himself, casting doubt on his claims to have been pinned to the floor by two “Arab-sounding” men.
A medical examiner concluded that “the position and appearance of the injury provide strong indications that it was self-inflicted,” local newspaper Sydsvenskan reports.
The medical examiner said there was a 90 percent likelihood the story was a hoax, a source close to the investigation told Sydsvenskan.
Antoni is now being investigated for providing a false account of events after police also failed to find any evidence of intruders in his home. The politician denies concocting the story and inflicting the wound on himself.
Sweden Democrat party leader Jimmie Åkesson wrote an open letter on September 13th in a bid to highlight “the violence perpetrated by the extreme left.” He described the purported assault on Antoni as “one of the worst political acts our country has seen in modern times”.
Update: Not that this revelation bothers Pamela Geller. Cf. “Swedish Democrat politician tortured by Muslims: swastika cut into his forehead”, Atlas Shrugs, 30 September 2014