Area Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Police say they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then found multiple other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have requested to the residents for tips.
A senior representative said the vandalism left him without words and required to be resolved quickly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the killing of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
