Vehicles in Germany's Town Found Covered with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm
Area Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Police state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then located many other marked cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials state early analysis show the fluid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; officials are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for details.
A high-ranking political figure said the attack made him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine people by a shooter targeting individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
