Vehicles in Germany's Town Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then found numerous other marked cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report early analysis show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; investigators are not yet cognizant of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials stated they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have requested to the residents for details.
A high-ranking official commented the attack made him stunned and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack in 2020," he wrote on a platform, recalling the death of nine people by a shooter aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
