Local Police
Around fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they stated in a statement.
Officers state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then discovered many other marked automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement say early analysis show the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are currently not aware of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for information.
An important official stated the incident left him without words and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on online, recalling the death of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
