Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then discovered numerous other marked automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say early analysis show the substance was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the residents for information.
An important political figure said the attack left him stunned and required to be solved quickly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, referring to the death of nine victims by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
