Local Police
Roughly 50 cars have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Police then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to its source; officials are not yet cognizant of any injuries in connection with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the residents for details.
An important political figure commented the vandalism left him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine people by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
