Area Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then found many other smeared cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report early analysis indicate the substance was probably human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; officials are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials said they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the public for tips.
A high-ranking political figure stated the incident left him speechless and needed to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the killing of nine people by a shooter focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.
