Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers say they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they added.
Police then found many other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report initial examinations suggest the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to its source; investigators are not yet aware of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important representative said the vandalism made him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
