Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Law enforcement report they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered multiple other marked automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; authorities are currently not aware of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to resolve the case" and have asked to the public for tips.
A senior representative said the vandalism rendered him without words and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the death of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at people of migrant background in 2020.
