Area Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Police state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; investigators are not yet informed of any harm in relation with the incident," they stated.
City officials said they were working "to solve the case" and have asked to the community for details.
An important political figure said the vandalism left him speechless and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, referring to the death of nine individuals by a shooter targeting residents of immigrant origin in 2020.
