Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a official communication.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then found multiple other smeared vehicles and house walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say preliminary tests show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any harm in association with the incident," they added.
City officials said they were working "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
A high-ranking official stated the attack left him without words and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on a platform, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a gunman targeting residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
