Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement say they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then located many other marked automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests show the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they added.
Local authorities stated they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for details.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism rendered him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on social media, recalling the killing of nine people by a shooter aiming at people of migrant background in five years prior.
