Local Police
Roughly 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement state they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then located numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state preliminary tests indicate the liquid was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; authorities are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
An important official said the attack left him stunned and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a assailant targeting people of migrant background in February 2020.
