US EditionPolice investigate swastikas painted with human blood in Germany
Nearly 50 vehicles and properties were defaced with swastikas painted in human blood; suspect, a 31-year-old man, is under psychiatric evaluation amid unclear motives.
- On Thursday, police in Hanau said dozens of cars, some mailboxes and building facades were smeared and marked with swastikas in Hanau, a city near Frankfurt, after officers were alerted late Wednesday.
- A man who discovered the first smeared car in Lamboy alerted police Thursday, and tests indicated the reddish substance was probably human blood, but authorities say the background is unclear.
- Officers found swastikas and other markings across vehicles and buildings, with cars, walls and postboxes defaced in reddish liquid and police treating the cases as property damage and banned symbol use.
- Local authorities appealed for information, saying they were trying 'to solve the mystery,' while Omid Nouripour, Bundestag Vice President, did not comment on the incidents.
- Under German law, public display of Nazi symbols is banned, as the swastika is widely considered a hate symbol linked to Holocaust trauma, and white supremacists continue to use it to stoke fear.
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German man accused of painting swastikas on multiple buildings, nearly 50 cars using own blood
Police in Germany arrested a man who allegedly used his own blood to paint swastikas on buildings and nearly four dozen cars in a sleepy central town outside of Frankfurt.
Germany: Swastikas painted in human blood on cars and buildings in Hanau
German police arrested a 31-year-old Romanian man in Hanau on suspicion of painting swastikas; the mayor condemned the act, saying, 'Swastikas have no place in Hanau. We will not allow such symbols to sow fear or division'
Nearly 50 cars, several mailboxes and house walls have obviously been smeared with human blood in Hanau - many of them with swastikas.
The police from Hanau, a German city that was staged an armed attack by an extremist on the right after five years, arrested a Romanian man suspected of drawing swastikas on the car,...
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