Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Law enforcement report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then located numerous other marked vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police say early analysis indicate the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are currently not informed of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the case" and have appealed to the public for tips.
An important political figure stated the vandalism rendered him stunned and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
