Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were notified late on Wednesday, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered many other marked automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report early analysis show the liquid was probably human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are presently not informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials stated they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for information.
A senior official said the vandalism left him without words and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on online, mentioning the killing of nine people by a assailant focusing on individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
