Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then discovered numerous other marked vehicles and house walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably human blood.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not aware of any injuries in relation with the event," they stated.
City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the residents for information.
A senior political figure said the vandalism rendered him speechless and required to be solved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine victims by a shooter focusing on individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
