Area Police
Around fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Police then located multiple other smeared cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials state initial examinations suggest the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; investigators are presently not aware of any physical harm in association with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the community for tips.
A high-ranking representative said the incident made him stunned and needed to be resolved promptly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on social media, mentioning the murder of nine people by a shooter focusing on residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
