Vehicles in Germany's City Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Area Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, walls and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Police report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then found many other marked vehicles and house walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials report initial examinations suggest the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to its origin; investigators are currently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the event," they stated.
City officials announced they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the community for details.
A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism left him without words and had to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing attack in 2020," he posted on social media, recalling the death of nine victims by a gunman aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
