Area Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been applied in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was probably human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to its source; authorities are currently not informed of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they added.
City officials announced they were working "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
An important political figure stated the vandalism made him stunned and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack in 2020," he stated on social media, recalling the murder of nine victims by a gunman targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
