Area Police
Around fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then discovered many other marked automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the community for details.
An important official said the incident made him speechless and required to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine victims by a gunman targeting residents of migrant background in five years prior.
