Local Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.
Police state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then located numerous other marked vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say early analysis show the liquid was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to its source; investigators are currently not aware of any harm in association with the event," they commented.
City officials stated they were working "to resolve the case" and have requested to the public for information.
An important representative commented the vandalism made him stunned and needed to be solved promptly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
