Automobiles in German City Found Marked with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other marked automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report early analysis suggest the substance was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities said they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the public for information.
A senior political figure commented the attack rendered him speechless and had to be solved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine victims by a gunman targeting people of migrant background in five years prior.
