Vehicles in Germany's Town Discovered Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Human Blood, Police Confirm
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Roughly 50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Officers state they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Police then discovered many other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the substance was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; officials are not yet cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have requested to the community for information.
A high-ranking political figure stated the attack left him without words and had to be solved promptly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing attack in 2020," he wrote on online, recalling the death of nine people by a gunman targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
