Local Police
Around 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered multiple other smeared cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police report initial examinations suggest the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they added.
City officials said they were working "to resolve the case" and have asked to the residents for details.
A high-ranking official commented the vandalism made him without words and had to be solved rapidly.
"This incident hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a gunman targeting residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
