Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Police state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Police then located numerous other marked cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report initial examinations show the substance was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; authorities are presently not informed of any injuries in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the incident" and have requested to the residents for details.
A senior official said the vandalism rendered him speechless and required to be solved promptly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
