Automobiles in Germany's Town Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Police Confirm
Area Police
Around fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then located many other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report initial examinations show the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior official stated the attack rendered him without words and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This event strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he stated on online, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
