Vehicles in Germany's City Found Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Area Police
Around fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Law enforcement report they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say initial examinations show the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"There is still no clue as to its origin; officials are currently not aware of any harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
City officials announced they were working "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the residents for tips.
A senior official commented the incident rendered him speechless and required to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
