Local Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered numerous other smeared cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police report initial examinations show the substance was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are presently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the event," they stated.
City officials stated they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have requested to the residents for details.
A high-ranking political figure stated the attack rendered him without words and required to be resolved promptly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he stated on social media, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
