Automobiles in German Town Discovered Marked with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Area Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then located numerous other marked automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police say preliminary tests indicate the substance was likely blood from a person.
"There is still no clue as to where it came from; investigators are currently not aware of any harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the community for information.
A senior representative commented the attack made him without words and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the killing of nine people by a assailant targeting residents of immigrant origin in 2020.
