Local Law Enforcement
Around 50 cars have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers state they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered numerous other smeared cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say preliminary tests indicate the liquid was probably human blood.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; investigators are not yet aware of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
City officials announced they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the community for information.
An important representative commented the vandalism made him without words and required to be solved promptly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a shooter aiming at people of immigrant origin in 2020.
