Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Officers then found many other marked cars and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests show the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; officials are presently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
City officials announced they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the public for tips.
A high-ranking political figure stated the attack rendered him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he posted on social media, recalling the murder of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on people of migrant background in 2020.
