Local Police
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Police state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then located multiple other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state early analysis suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to its source; authorities are currently not informed of any injuries in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to resolve the case" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism rendered him stunned and needed to be solved quickly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he stated on social media, recalling the murder of nine victims by a gunman focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
