Automobiles in German Town Found Covered with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Report
Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then located multiple other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state early analysis indicate the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; investigators are presently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have asked to the community for details.
An important representative commented the incident made him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing attack five years ago," he stated on a platform, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant targeting people of migrant background in five years prior.
