Local Police
Approximately fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.
Police state they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then found many other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; investigators are currently not aware of any harm in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the community for tips.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism made him speechless and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
