Automobiles in Germany's City Found Covered with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Officers then discovered many other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement state initial examinations suggest the fluid was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; investigators are currently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities said they were working "to unravel the case" and have requested to the residents for details.
A senior political figure said the attack rendered him speechless and required to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a shooter focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
