Automobiles in German City Found Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to its source; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have requested to the public for details.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism rendered him stunned and required to be solved promptly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on online, recalling the murder of nine victims by a gunman aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
