Local Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say initial examinations indicate the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"There is still no lead as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the community for tips.
A high-ranking political figure stated the vandalism made him stunned and required to be addressed promptly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing violent incident five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the death of nine people by a shooter focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
