Automobiles in Germany's City Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Police Confirm
Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been smeared with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Police report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then located numerous other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report initial examinations suggest the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; authorities are not yet cognizant of any harm in association with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for details.
A high-ranking official said the vandalism made him without words and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the death of nine victims by a shooter aiming at residents of immigrant origin in February 2020.