Cars in Germany's Town Found Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Local Police
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then located many other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state initial examinations show the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have requested to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative commented the incident rendered him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.
