Vehicles in Germany's City Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Police
Around fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Police state they were notified late on Wednesday, when a man discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then found multiple other smeared cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to its origin; officials are currently not aware of any harm in connection with the incident," they added.
City officials said they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for tips.
A high-ranking official stated the incident rendered him without words and had to be solved rapidly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he posted on online, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
