Area Police
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Law enforcement report they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the substance was probably blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to its source; investigators are not yet aware of any harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the public for details.
A high-ranking political figure said the incident rendered him speechless and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the death of nine victims by a assailant focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
