Vehicles in German City Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Law enforcement say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state preliminary tests show the liquid was most likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; officials are presently not aware of any harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the case" and have appealed to the residents for information.
An important representative commented the attack rendered him without words and had to be resolved promptly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he stated on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
