Area Police
Around fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then located numerous other smeared cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say initial examinations show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important political figure commented the vandalism left him without words and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on a platform, recalling the killing of nine victims by a gunman aiming at individuals of migrant background in February 2020.
