Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement say they were notified late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The fluid had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then found numerous other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are presently not aware of any harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the public for information.
A senior representative said the vandalism left him speechless and had to be solved rapidly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right violent incident five years ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in five years prior.
