Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state preliminary tests show the substance was probably human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the public for tips.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism made him without words and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the death of nine people by a shooter aiming at individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
