Local Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then located numerous other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests show the substance was most likely human blood.
"There is still no clue as to its origin; officials are not yet aware of any physical harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
A senior representative said the incident rendered him without words and required to be solved rapidly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a shooter targeting individuals of migrant background in 2020.
