Area Police
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement say they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then located many other marked automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police report initial examinations suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to its source; investigators are currently not cognizant of any injuries in relation with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the public for details.
An important official commented the attack left him without words and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
