Cars in German City Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Law enforcement state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then found many other marked cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police say preliminary tests show the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they stated.
Local authorities said they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the residents for information.
A high-ranking official commented the attack rendered him speechless and had to be addressed promptly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in February 2020.