Cars in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Area Police
Around 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then discovered multiple other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; officials are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the residents for tips.
An important representative commented the attack rendered him speechless and had to be solved rapidly.
"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, recalling the killing of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.
