Area Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Police report they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then found many other vandalized vehicles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the community for information.
A senior representative commented the incident left him stunned and required to be addressed promptly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.
