Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement report they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then located multiple other smeared cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; officials are currently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for tips.
A senior political figure said the vandalism rendered him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, referring to the death of nine people by a shooter targeting individuals of immigrant origin in 2020.
