Cars in German Town Discovered Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Confirm
Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered many other smeared cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to its source; officials are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they added.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the incident" and have asked to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative said the attack left him speechless and had to be resolved quickly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, recalling the killing of nine people by a gunman aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in February 2020.
