Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Officers say they were notified late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered multiple other marked vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; investigators are not yet cognizant of any harm in relation with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the public for details.
A senior political figure stated the incident left him speechless and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of migrant background in February 2020.
