Cars in German Town Discovered Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Confirm
Local Police
Approximately fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a statement.
Police state they were alerted during the night on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then found numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report early analysis indicate the liquid was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; authorities are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the event," they added.
City officials announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior political figure said the incident left him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
