Cars in Germany's City Found Marked with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a statement.
Police report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then discovered multiple other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police report initial examinations show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; authorities are currently not informed of any injuries in connection with the event," they added.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to solve the incident" and have requested to the residents for information.
An important political figure said the incident left him without words and required to be solved promptly.
"This event strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, recalling the murder of nine victims by a shooter focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
