Vehicles in Germany's City Found Covered with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Police Report
Local Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then discovered multiple other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for details.
A senior representative commented the vandalism rendered him without words and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine people by a gunman focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
