Vehicles in Germany's City Found Covered with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a release.
Police say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then located numerous other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are presently not aware of any harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have appealed to the public for details.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism rendered him stunned and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of immigrant origin in February 2020.
