Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Police say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests indicate the fluid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; authorities are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the incident," they added.
City officials said they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the community for tips.
An important political figure said the vandalism made him without words and required to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, mentioning the murder of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
