Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the event," they added.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative said the incident left him stunned and required to be solved rapidly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he posted on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at residents of immigrant origin in 2020.
