Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Officers state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then discovered many other smeared cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state early analysis indicate the liquid was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to its source; investigators are presently not aware of any physical harm in connection with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the community for details.
An important political figure said the vandalism left him speechless and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
