Cars in German Town Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other marked automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations suggest the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no clue as to its source; authorities are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the public for details.
A high-ranking official said the vandalism rendered him speechless and required to be solved rapidly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine people by a shooter targeting individuals of foreign heritage in 2020.
