Area Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police say they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then found numerous other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; officials are presently not aware of any harm in relation with the event," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important official commented the vandalism left him stunned and needed to be solved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing attack in 2020," he wrote on a platform, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a shooter aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
