Cars in German City Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement report initial examinations show the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; officials are currently not informed of any injuries in relation with the event," they added.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the public for tips.
A senior official stated the incident made him stunned and required to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a shooter focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
