Local Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Police then located multiple other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report preliminary tests show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for details.
An important political figure commented the vandalism left him speechless and required to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, recalling the death of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of migrant background in February 2020.
