Local Police
Roughly 50 vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Officers report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they stated.
Officers then located multiple other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state early analysis suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; officials are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials announced they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the residents for tips.
A senior official stated the incident made him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, recalling the killing of nine victims by a gunman focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
