Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then located many other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was likely human blood.
"There is still no indication as to its source; officials are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the community for details.
An important political figure stated the vandalism left him without words and needed to be solved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
