Local Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then located many other marked cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials say early analysis suggest the substance was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior representative commented the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing attack five years ago," he posted on a platform, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in February 2020.
