Local Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a statement.
Officers state they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Officers then found many other smeared automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement state initial examinations show the substance was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials stated they were working "to solve the case" and have requested to the community for information.
An important political figure stated the incident made him speechless and needed to be addressed rapidly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing violent incident five years ago," he wrote on a platform, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
