Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers report they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found many other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say early analysis suggest the fluid was likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; officials are not yet aware of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have asked to the residents for information.
A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism left him stunned and had to be solved rapidly.
"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the killing of nine people by a gunman focusing on residents of migrant background in February 2020.
