Vehicles in Germany's City Found Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Area Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then located numerous other smeared automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are presently not informed of any injuries in connection with the incident," they commented.
City officials stated they were working "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for tips.
A senior representative said the vandalism made him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the far-right attack in 2020," he stated on a platform, recalling the murder of nine people by a shooter focusing on individuals of migrant background in 2020.
