Automobiles in Germany's Town Found Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Police state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered numerous other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are currently not aware of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
A high-ranking official said the attack rendered him without words and required to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in five years prior.
