Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they stated in a statement.
Police state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been applied in the form of a swastika, they added.
Officers then found many other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say initial examinations suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; authorities are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for details.
A senior official commented the vandalism left him without words and had to be solved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on a platform, recalling the death of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
