Vehicles in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Report
Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then found numerous other vandalized vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say initial examinations show the fluid was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the public for tips.
A high-ranking political figure commented the attack left him without words and had to be resolved quickly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine people by a assailant focusing on individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
