Cars in German City Discovered Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then located numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state preliminary tests show the substance was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; investigators are not yet cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have requested to the residents for details.
An important representative commented the attack rendered him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the murder of nine victims by a shooter targeting residents of foreign heritage in 2020.