Vehicles in German City Discovered Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Law Enforcement Report
Local Police
Around fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Police state they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then discovered many other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report preliminary tests show the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; authorities are currently not informed of any harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism made him stunned and had to be solved rapidly.
"This incident affects the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a gunman targeting people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
