Local Police
Around fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Police say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then found multiple other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report early analysis show the liquid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; officials are presently not cognizant of any injuries in relation with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have asked to the residents for details.
A senior official said the attack rendered him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, referring to the death of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in 2020.
