Area Police
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement state they were notified late on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered many other marked automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the substance was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials stated they were trying "to solve the case" and have appealed to the community for details.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism left him stunned and had to be solved quickly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on a platform, referring to the killing of nine victims by a shooter targeting people of migrant background in five years prior.
