Vehicles in Germany's Town Found Covered with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police State
Area Police
Approximately 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Officers state they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Officers then located multiple other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say initial examinations indicate the fluid was most likely human blood.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the residents for information.
A senior representative stated the attack rendered him stunned and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on a platform, referring to the killing of nine people by a gunman targeting people of migrant background in February 2020.
