Vehicles in Germany's Town Discovered Covered with Swastikas in Blood, Law Enforcement Confirm

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Police reported they were alerted by a resident who noticed a car in Hanau marked with reddish liquid

Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.

Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a official communication.

Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.

The liquid had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.

Law enforcement then located multiple other smeared vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.

Officials state initial examinations show the liquid was most likely blood from a person.

"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; officials are presently not aware of any harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.

Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the public for tips.

An important representative said the vandalism made him speechless and had to be solved quickly.

"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a gunman targeting residents of immigrant origin in 2020.

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