Automobiles in German Town Discovered Covered with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then located multiple other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police report initial examinations indicate the fluid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for tips.
A senior official said the vandalism made him without words and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on online, recalling the murder of nine victims by a assailant focusing on people of migrant background in February 2020.
