Local Police
Roughly 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Law enforcement say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report initial examinations suggest the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; authorities are currently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for details.
A high-ranking official said the vandalism made him without words and needed to be solved promptly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine people by a shooter aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
