Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered many other marked cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report early analysis indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in association with the event," they commented.
City officials stated they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A high-ranking representative said the incident rendered him without words and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he posted on online, recalling the death of nine individuals by a assailant targeting residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
