Local Police
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then located numerous other smeared cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state initial examinations indicate the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the event," they added.
Local authorities stated they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the community for tips.
An important political figure said the incident made him without words and had to be resolved quickly.
"This event strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist attack five years ago," he posted on online, mentioning the death of nine victims by a shooter focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.
