Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then discovered many other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the fluid was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any physical harm in association with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for information.
A senior representative stated the incident left him stunned and needed to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, recalling the death of nine victims by a assailant focusing on people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
