Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Officers then located many other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report initial examinations indicate the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"There is still no clue as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the community for tips.
A senior representative said the incident rendered him without words and had to be addressed rapidly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right violent incident five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a shooter aiming at people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
