Vehicles in Germany's City Found Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then found numerous other smeared automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report early analysis indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are currently not aware of any injuries in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to solve the case" and have requested to the residents for information.
A high-ranking political figure said the incident made him stunned and required to be solved promptly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist attack five years ago," he posted on social media, referring to the murder of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of migrant background in February 2020.