Cars in Germany's City Discovered Marked with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Report
Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Law enforcement state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then found multiple other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the community for information.
A senior political figure said the incident rendered him speechless and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the death of nine victims by a gunman targeting individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
