Local Law Enforcement
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Officers state they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Police say early analysis indicate the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the residents for information.
A senior official commented the attack made him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at individuals of immigrant origin in February 2020.
