Vehicles in German City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 vehicles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then located numerous other marked vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the substance was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the public for details.
An important political figure stated the vandalism made him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a assailant targeting individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
