Cars in German Town Found Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Police Report
Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers state they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish liquid.
The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then found many other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests show the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are not yet cognizant of any harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative stated the incident made him without words and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing attack in 2020," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine people by a gunman focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in 2020.
