Vehicles in German City Discovered Marked with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Report
Area Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then located numerous other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say initial examinations show the liquid was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities announced they were working "to resolve the case" and have requested to the community for details.
A high-ranking official said the incident made him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in five years prior.
