Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then located numerous other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are currently not informed of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they added.
City officials announced they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the community for details.
A senior official said the incident rendered him without words and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a gunman targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
