Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Police say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then discovered many other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police report early analysis show the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to its source; authorities are presently not aware of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the community for details.
A senior representative said the attack left him stunned and required to be resolved quickly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine people by a gunman focusing on people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
