Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a individual observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found many other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests indicate the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; authorities are currently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
An important representative commented the vandalism left him without words and had to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right attack in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the murder of nine people by a assailant focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
