Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then located many other marked vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police state initial examinations show the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; officials are presently not cognizant of any injuries in relation with the event," they stated.
City officials stated they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for tips.
A high-ranking political figure commented the vandalism rendered him speechless and had to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, recalling the death of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
