Local Police
Around 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Police then discovered multiple other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests show the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have asked to the community for information.
A senior official stated the attack rendered him speechless and had to be resolved quickly.
"This incident affects the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right violent incident half a decade ago," he stated on social media, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
