Area Police
Roughly 50 automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then found multiple other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests indicate the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to resolve the case" and have asked to the public for information.
A senior official said the incident made him without words and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he stated on social media, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in 2020.
