Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Police say they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered numerous other marked automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations show the liquid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; investigators are currently not informed of any harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the residents for tips.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism left him without words and required to be solved rapidly.
"This incident affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on social media, recalling the killing of nine victims by a shooter aiming at residents of foreign heritage in 2020.
