Local Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police report they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests suggest the liquid was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; authorities are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to unravel the case" and have requested to the community for tips.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism left him speechless and had to be addressed rapidly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he posted on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a shooter targeting individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
