Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement say they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then found numerous other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials say initial examinations show the fluid was probably human blood.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they commented.
City officials said they were working "to solve the case" and have appealed to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative said the incident left him speechless and required to be resolved quickly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.
