Area Police
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they stated in a statement.
Officers report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests show the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to solve the case" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative commented the incident made him without words and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
