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Police investigate swastikas painted with human blood in Germany
Nearly 50 vehicles and several structures in Hanau were defaced with swastikas drawn in probable human blood, police said, with motives still unknown.
- 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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Police in Germany arrested a 31-year-old man suspected of painting swastikas with his own blood in dozens of cars, some mailboxes and building facades in the central city of Hanau. Police spokesman Thomas Leipold stated that the officers were alerted on Wednesday night when a man claimed to have seen the shape of a swastika applied with a reddish liquid on the bonnet of a parked car. Police indicated that nearly 50 cars had been similarly marked…
Police in the city of Hanau are investigating a case of vandalism in which perpetrators painted swastikas, some with human blood, on nearly 50 vehicles.
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