Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Police report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then located multiple other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say initial examinations indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; officials are currently not aware of any harm in association with the incident," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the public for details.
A high-ranking political figure stated the vandalism left him without words and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a gunman focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
