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Vehicles in Germany's City Discovered Smeared with Nazi Symbols in Blood, Police Report

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Authorities stated they were contacted by a resident who found a car in Hanau marked with red-colored liquid

Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.

Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.

Police state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.

The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.

Law enforcement then found numerous other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.

Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.

Police say early analysis indicate the fluid was likely blood from a person.

"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they stated.

City officials stated they were working "to resolve the case" and have asked to the community for information.

A senior official said the attack rendered him stunned and required to be solved rapidly.

"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.

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