Vehicles in Germany's City Found Marked with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a release.
Police report they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then found numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests show the fluid was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are currently not informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the community for information.
A high-ranking representative commented the vandalism left him without words and required to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he posted on online, mentioning the murder of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on people of migrant background in February 2020.
