Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers say they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then discovered multiple other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report early analysis indicate the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; authorities are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they added.
City officials said they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for details.
An important official commented the vandalism left him stunned and required to be solved promptly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he stated on online, referring to the death of nine victims by a gunman focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.
