Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Officers then located multiple other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the substance was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to solve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A high-ranking representative commented the incident made him speechless and had to be resolved promptly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, recalling the death of nine individuals by a assailant targeting residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
