Cars in German City Found Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
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Around fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Police state they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then discovered multiple other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say early analysis show the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; investigators are not yet informed 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 residents for tips.
An important political figure commented the incident rendered him without words and required to be addressed quickly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
