Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the form of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then located numerous other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state initial examinations indicate the liquid was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; officials are currently not informed of any harm in association with the incident," they added.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the community for details.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism made him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of migrant background in 2020.
