Local Police
Roughly 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been placed in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Police then found many other marked cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the community for details.
An important political figure commented the attack rendered him without words and required to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on online, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman targeting individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
