Cars in German City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Local Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other marked automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not aware of any injuries in connection with the event," they added.
Local authorities stated they were working "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior representative commented the incident left him without words and required to be resolved quickly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on residents of migrant background in February 2020.
