Vehicles in German City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a statement.
Police report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been applied in the form of a swastika, they added.
Police then discovered numerous other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests indicate the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not informed of any harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A senior representative said the vandalism made him stunned and had to be solved promptly.
"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine people by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.