Automobiles in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Local Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered many other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the substance was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are presently not aware of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to solve the incident" and have requested to the public for information.
A senior representative said the incident rendered him without words and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on social media, recalling the killing of nine people by a shooter targeting people of migrant background in 2020.