Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then discovered numerous other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say initial examinations suggest the substance was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for details.
A senior political figure said the attack rendered him stunned and required to be solved rapidly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he stated on online, referring to the killing of nine victims by a shooter aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in February 2020.
