Cars in Germany's City Discovered Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Police Confirm
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Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Police say they were notified during the night on Wednesday evening, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered multiple other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the liquid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; investigators are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for details.
A senior official said the vandalism rendered him stunned and required to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the killing of nine people by a assailant aiming at people of migrant background in February 2020.
