Automobiles in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Report

Area Law Enforcement

Around 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.

Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.

Officers state they were notified during the night on Wednesday evening, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.

The fluid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.

Law enforcement then located numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.

Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably human blood.

"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are currently not informed of any physical harm in connection with the event," they added.

Local authorities stated they were working "to unravel the case" and have requested to the residents for details.

A high-ranking official said the attack made him without words and required to be solved promptly.

"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.