Vehicles in Germany's Town Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State
Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were marked, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Police say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been placed in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then discovered multiple other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say early analysis indicate the substance was probably human blood.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; investigators are not yet cognizant of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the public for information.
A high-ranking political figure commented the attack rendered him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the killing of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
