Local Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then located many other marked cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials said they were working "to resolve the case" and have appealed to the community for details.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism left him speechless and had to be solved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on online, recalling the murder of nine individuals by a shooter aiming at people of foreign heritage in 2020.
