Automobiles in German Town Found Marked with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Officers report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report preliminary tests suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are not yet cognizant of any harm in relation with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the residents for tips.
An important political figure said the incident rendered him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at individuals of migrant background in 2020.
