Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Police say they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then discovered multiple other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say early analysis show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; officials are currently not informed of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities said they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism rendered him without words and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on online, recalling the murder of nine people by a shooter focusing on residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
