Cars in German Town Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Police Report

Incident location — Police reported they were notified by a man who found a automobile in Hanau marked with red-colored liquid

Affected vehicle — Police reported they were notified by a man who found a automobile in Hanau marked with red-colored liquid

Approximately fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.

Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.

Officers state they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.

The substance had been applied in the shape of a swastika, they reported.

Law enforcement then found many other marked automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.

These symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.

Officials state initial examinations indicate the fluid was likely human blood.

"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; investigators are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.

City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have asked to the public for information.

A high-ranking political figure commented the attack left him stunned and needed to be resolved quickly.

"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing attack five years ago," he stated on online, recalling the death of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.