Local Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then found many other marked vehicles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests show the liquid was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to its source; authorities are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities announced they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the public for details.
A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be resolved quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a gunman focusing on people of immigrant origin in 2020.
