Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were marked, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers state they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Police then discovered numerous other marked cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests show the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; investigators are currently not informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
An important representative stated the attack rendered him stunned and had to be addressed quickly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.
