Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then located numerous other marked vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to solve the case" and have requested to the residents for information.
A senior political figure stated the incident rendered him speechless and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a shooter aiming at people of migrant background in February 2020.
