Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Police report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then located numerous other smeared automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests suggest the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the community for details.
A high-ranking official stated the incident made him stunned and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right attack five years ago," he stated on a platform, referring to the killing of nine people by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
