Vehicles in Germany's City Found Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Police Report
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Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Law enforcement report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then discovered numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably human blood.
"There is still no indication as to its origin; officials are presently not aware of any injuries in association with the incident," they added.
Local authorities said they were trying "to unravel the case" and have requested to the community for tips.
A senior official commented the attack made him without words and needed to be solved promptly.
"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, recalling the death of nine people by a shooter targeting people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
