Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers say they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then located multiple other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations show the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; authorities are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for details.
An important representative commented the vandalism left him without words and required to be addressed promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the right-wing violent incident in 2020," he wrote on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
