Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then found multiple other marked vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report preliminary tests show the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in association with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the community for information.
A high-ranking official commented the attack left him without words and required to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, recalling the killing of nine victims by a gunman focusing on residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
