Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Police then discovered many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; authorities are currently not aware of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the public for details.
An important political figure stated the attack left him stunned and required to be resolved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a shooter targeting individuals of foreign heritage in February 2020.
