Cars in German City Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then found many other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say early analysis indicate the fluid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; officials are not yet aware of any harm in relation with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior official said the incident made him stunned and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right attack in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the murder of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
