Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Officers say they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then discovered many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state preliminary tests suggest the liquid was most likely human blood.
"There is still no indication as to its origin; investigators are currently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A high-ranking political figure said the attack made him without words and had to be solved quickly.
"This incident affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, referring to the death of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
