Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then located numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state initial examinations suggest the fluid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; officials are presently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the event," they added.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the public for information.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism left him stunned and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on a platform, mentioning the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in 2020.
