Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Police report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then located multiple other smeared vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police report initial examinations show the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are presently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities said they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the residents for details.
A high-ranking official stated the incident made him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the murder of nine people by a gunman targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
