Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Police say they were contacted late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then located many other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the substance was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; investigators are not yet informed of any harm in relation with the event," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for information.
A high-ranking official said the attack rendered him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the death of nine victims by a shooter aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
