Automobiles in Germany's City Found Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Area Police
Around fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then located many other vandalized cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any harm in association with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
A high-ranking political figure stated the attack left him stunned and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he stated on social media, recalling the murder of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
