Local Law Enforcement
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized cars and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state early analysis suggest the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; authorities are currently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials said they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the public for tips.
A senior official stated the incident left him without words and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he stated on a platform, recalling the death of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
