Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Police state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then found multiple other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say early analysis suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; authorities are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities said they were trying "to resolve the case" and have requested to the public for details.
An important political figure stated the incident made him stunned and needed to be solved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he stated on social media, recalling the killing of nine people by a gunman targeting residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
