Automobiles in German City Discovered Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Police Report
Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were notified late on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then found numerous other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say early analysis suggest the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; officials are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to resolve the case" and have requested to the public for information.
An important political figure said the vandalism made him stunned and required to be addressed quickly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine people by a gunman targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
