Cars in German Town Discovered Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Police Report
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Police state they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been placed in the shape of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then located numerous other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say early analysis show the substance was likely blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not aware of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities said they were working "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the residents for information.
A high-ranking representative commented the vandalism rendered him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, recalling the murder of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in 2020.
