Area Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they stated in a statement.
Law enforcement state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then located multiple other marked vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state initial examinations indicate the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; investigators are presently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the event," they stated.
City officials said they were working "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the residents for details.
An important official commented the incident made him stunned and had to be solved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
