Automobiles in German Town Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm
Area Police
Around fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered numerous other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say early analysis indicate the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any harm in association with the event," they added.
City officials said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior political figure said the attack left him without words and had to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on a platform, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
