Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Officers then discovered many other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police say initial examinations suggest the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; authorities are not yet informed of any harm in connection with the incident," they added.
City officials announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A high-ranking representative said the incident made him stunned and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing attack five years ago," he stated on online, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on residents of migrant background in 2020.
