Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a official communication.
Law enforcement say they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then found numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; authorities are currently not aware of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for tips.
A senior representative said the attack made him stunned and had to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
