Cars in German Town Discovered Marked with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 cars have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers say they were notified late on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then found multiple other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state initial examinations show the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; officials are not yet informed of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
City officials said they were trying "to solve the incident" and have requested to the public for information.
An important representative said the vandalism left him without words and had to be solved rapidly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the murder of nine victims by a gunman focusing on individuals of migrant background in 2020.
