Automobiles in Germany's City Discovered Marked with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Area Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.
Police say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then discovered multiple other smeared cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report initial examinations show the substance was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; investigators are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the residents for tips.
A senior political figure said the incident rendered him stunned and had to be solved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the murder of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
