Automobiles in Germany's Town Found Marked with Swastikas in Blood, Police State
Area Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then found numerous other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; investigators are presently not informed of any harm in relation with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have asked to the residents for tips.
An important official commented the vandalism made him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This event strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, recalling the killing of nine people by a gunman targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
