Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found many other smeared cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say early analysis show the substance was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; officials are presently not cognizant of any harm in relation with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the public for information.
A high-ranking official said the vandalism made him stunned and required to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on a platform, recalling the murder of nine people by a gunman targeting people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
