Cars in German Town Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Police Report
Local Police
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Officers state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then found many other marked cars and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say preliminary tests show the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any physical harm in association with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the residents for details.
An important representative commented the attack rendered him without words and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This incident hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on online, recalling the death of nine people by a shooter targeting people of migrant background in February 2020.