Vehicles in German City Discovered Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Confirm
Area Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police state they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then located multiple other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; officials are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
An important political figure commented the vandalism left him without words and required to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the killing of nine victims by a gunman targeting residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
