Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then found many other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say initial examinations indicate the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; investigators are currently not informed of any harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials announced they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for tips.
A senior representative stated the incident left him speechless and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine people by a assailant focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
