Local Police
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 authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Law enforcement state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police state initial examinations indicate the fluid was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; authorities are not yet aware of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the public for details.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism left him stunned and had to be addressed promptly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the murder of nine people by a shooter aiming at residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
