Automobiles in German Town Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Police
Around fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Police say they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then located numerous other vandalized vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state initial examinations show the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to its source; officials are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the incident," they added.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to solve the case" and have asked to the residents for tips.
An important political figure said the vandalism left him without words and required to be addressed quickly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on online, referring to the death of nine individuals by a shooter targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
