Cars in German Town Found Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Police Confirm
Area Police
Approximately fifty cars have been smeared with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Police state they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then discovered multiple other smeared cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests suggest the substance was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in association with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to solve the incident" and have asked to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative stated the attack left him stunned and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the right-wing attack in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the murder of nine victims by a assailant aiming at individuals of immigrant origin in 2020.
