Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers report they were notified during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then located numerous other vandalized vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations show the substance was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; investigators are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
City officials stated they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior official said the attack rendered him speechless and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, mentioning the death of nine victims by a shooter focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
