Automobiles in German Town Found Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Report

Local Law Enforcement

Around fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.

Cars, walls and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a statement.

Officers report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.

The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.

Law enforcement then found many other smeared cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.

Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.

Police state initial examinations suggest the substance was likely blood from a person.

"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; investigators are presently not informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.

Local authorities said they were working "to resolve the case" and have requested to the residents for information.

A senior political figure commented the vandalism left him stunned and had to be solved quickly.

"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a gunman targeting residents of immigrant origin in 2020.