Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other smeared automobiles and house walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; investigators are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the event," they added.
City officials said they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for tips.
An important representative commented the vandalism rendered him stunned and required to be solved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and revives the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on social media, recalling the killing of nine people by a shooter targeting individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.