Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then found numerous other marked automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; investigators are not yet cognizant of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials stated they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have appealed to the public for details.
A senior representative said the incident left him stunned and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing attack five years ago," he posted on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
