Local Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a official communication.
Officers report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then discovered many other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement state early analysis indicate the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; authorities are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the event," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the public for details.
A high-ranking official said the vandalism made him without words and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the death of nine victims by a gunman targeting individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
