Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then located numerous other smeared vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests show the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; investigators are presently not aware of any injuries in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to solve the case" and have asked to the public for information.
A senior representative commented the attack rendered him without words and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on a platform, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant targeting residents of migrant background in five years prior.
