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Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Police say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then located multiple other smeared automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Police report early analysis suggest the liquid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not aware of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials stated they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the community for details.
An important political figure commented the vandalism rendered him stunned and had to be addressed quickly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on a platform, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at people of migrant background in 2020.
