Area Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then discovered numerous other marked cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say preliminary tests show the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; investigators are currently not aware of any harm in connection with the event," they added.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
A senior political figure stated the attack rendered him stunned and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine victims by a gunman targeting residents of immigrant origin in February 2020.
