Vehicles in German City Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Local Law Enforcement
Around 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Law enforcement report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they added.
Officers then located many other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have requested to the community for information.
An important political figure said the attack made him without words and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
