Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Police say they were notified late on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of Nazi symbols.
Police report preliminary tests indicate the liquid was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they added.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A senior political figure stated the vandalism left him speechless and required to be solved promptly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing attack in 2020," he posted on online, mentioning the killing of nine people by a gunman focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
