Cars in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement State

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Officers stated they were alerted by a individual who discovered a automobile in Hanau smeared with reddish substance

Approximately 50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.

Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.

Law enforcement report they were notified late on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.

The fluid had been applied in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.

Officers then located many other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.

Police state preliminary tests indicate the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.

"There is still no lead as to its source; officials are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.

Local authorities said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the community for information.

A high-ranking official stated the incident made him stunned and had to be addressed rapidly.

"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, recalling the killing of nine people by a assailant focusing on individuals of migrant background in February 2020.

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