Cars in Germany's City Found Marked with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm

Area Police

Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to authorities.

Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.

Police report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.

The liquid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they stated.

Law enforcement then located multiple other marked automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.

Police say preliminary tests show the substance was most likely blood from a person.

"There is still no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not aware of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they stated.

Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for information.

An important representative commented the vandalism made him without words and needed to be addressed rapidly.

"This incident affects the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a shooter focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.