Vehicles in German City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Police Report
Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 vehicles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Police say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then located numerous other marked vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report preliminary tests suggest the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; authorities are not yet aware of any physical harm in connection with the event," they added.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to solve the case" and have asked to the public for information.
An important political figure said the attack rendered him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a shooter targeting individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
