Local Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Police say they were contacted late on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then found many other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests indicate the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to its source; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for information.
A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism made him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he stated on social media, referring to the death of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
