Automobiles in Germany's City Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Police State
Area Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Officers report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other marked automobiles and house walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say early analysis suggest the fluid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are presently not informed of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to solve the incident" and have requested to the public for information.
A senior official said the vandalism rendered him stunned and required to be addressed quickly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the far-right violent incident five years ago," he posted on social media, referring to the death of nine individuals by a gunman targeting people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
