Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Police report they were notified during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then located numerous other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials say early analysis suggest the substance was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for information.
An important political figure commented the incident rendered him stunned and had to be resolved promptly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a assailant focusing on residents of migrant background in February 2020.
