Local Law Enforcement
Around 50 vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a release.
Officers say they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they added.
Police then discovered numerous other marked cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations show the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; officials are presently not informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for tips.
A senior official said the attack made him stunned and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine victims by a assailant focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
