Automobiles in Germany's Town Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Police state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests suggest the substance was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; investigators are presently not aware of any harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative stated the attack made him stunned and had to be solved promptly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he stated on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at residents of immigrant origin in 2020.
