Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Law enforcement say they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then located many other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report initial examinations suggest the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have asked to the community for tips.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism made him without words and required to be solved quickly.
"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the murder of nine people by a assailant aiming at individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
