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

Area Law Enforcement

Roughly fifty cars have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.

Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.

Law enforcement report they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.

The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.

Police then located many other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.

Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi symbols.

Officials say preliminary tests indicate the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.

"There is still no clue as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they added.

City officials said they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.

A high-ranking representative commented the attack left him speechless and had to be resolved promptly.

"This incident affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.