Area Police
Around fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then located numerous other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state early analysis indicate the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior political figure commented the attack made him stunned and required to be addressed promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on a platform, referring to the murder of nine people by a assailant aiming at people of migrant background in five years prior.
