Area Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been applied in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Police then discovered multiple other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests suggest the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the community for information.
An important representative commented the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist attack in 2020," he stated on social media, referring to the death of nine individuals by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
