Vehicles in German City Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Police Confirm
Local Police
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Police say they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then located multiple other smeared cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to its source; investigators are currently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the event," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A senior political figure commented the attack rendered him stunned and needed to be solved promptly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter focusing on residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
