Local Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then found many other marked vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement state early analysis suggest the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials stated they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the community for information.
An important representative said the vandalism rendered him without words and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant targeting individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
