Local Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement state they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then located multiple other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; officials are currently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative said the attack made him without words and had to be solved promptly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on online, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a assailant targeting people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
