Local Police
Roughly 50 automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Police state they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other marked vehicles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say early analysis suggest the substance was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials said they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the residents for information.
A senior official stated the incident made him speechless and had to be addressed promptly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on online, referring to the death of nine individuals by a assailant targeting residents of foreign heritage in 2020.
