Vehicles in German Town Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
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Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Police state they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been placed in the form of a swastika, they added.
Officers then discovered numerous other smeared cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police say preliminary tests suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are currently not informed of any harm in association with the incident," they commented.
City officials stated they were working "to resolve the case" and have requested to the community for tips.
An important official commented the incident rendered him without words and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on a platform, recalling the killing of nine victims by a shooter aiming at residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.