Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then found many other marked vehicles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say early analysis indicate the fluid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to solve the case" and have requested to the public for details.
A senior political figure said the attack made him without words and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
