Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Police report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests suggest the liquid was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to its source; investigators are presently not cognizant of any harm in relation with the event," they added.
City officials announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have requested to the community for information.
A senior official commented the vandalism left him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he stated on a platform, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
