Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Police say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; authorities are not yet aware of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials announced they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the community for details.
An important official said the incident rendered him speechless and needed to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he posted on a platform, referring to the killing of nine people by a assailant targeting individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
