Area Police
Roughly 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a official communication.
Officers say they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then discovered multiple other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report initial examinations suggest the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they added.
City officials announced they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the public for details.
A high-ranking representative stated the attack made him stunned and required to be solved promptly.
"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist attack in 2020," he stated on social media, recalling the killing of nine people by a shooter targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
