Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Officers say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered numerous other marked automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say early analysis show the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no lead as to its source; investigators are presently not aware of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials said they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important political figure stated the vandalism made him without words and required to be solved rapidly.
"This incident hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
