Area Police
Approximately fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been placed in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then discovered many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say initial examinations suggest the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; officials are presently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for tips.
An important political figure commented the vandalism left him stunned and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the right-wing attack five years ago," he wrote on online, recalling the death of nine victims by a shooter targeting residents of migrant background in five years prior.
