Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Police report they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then found multiple other marked cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Police say initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the public for tips.
A high-ranking representative commented the vandalism made him speechless and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he stated on a platform, recalling the death of nine victims by a assailant focusing on people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
