Local Police
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers state they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered many other marked cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests indicate the substance was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the event," they commented.
City officials announced they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative commented the vandalism rendered him without words and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a shooter focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in February 2020.
