Cars in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Local Police
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Police report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Officers then found many other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are currently not aware of any harm in association with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have requested to the community for information.
A senior official stated the attack made him without words and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing violent incident in 2020," he stated on a platform, referring to the death of nine victims by a shooter focusing on individuals of migrant background in February 2020.
