Local Police
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Police then located multiple other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement report initial examinations suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; officials are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the event," they commented.
City officials said they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative said the incident made him stunned and had to be solved promptly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and revives the trauma of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he posted on social media, referring to the death of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
