Vehicles in German City Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Police say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police say early analysis suggest the liquid was most likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to its source; authorities are presently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the public for details.
A senior political figure said the attack made him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine people by a shooter focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
