Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Police say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then found numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are currently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have asked to the public for tips.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism made him without words and had to be resolved quickly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on social media, recalling the killing of nine victims by a assailant aiming at individuals of migrant background in 2020.
