Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Police state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they added.
Police then found numerous other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Officials state early analysis show the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the community for details.
A high-ranking official stated the vandalism left him speechless and required to be solved rapidly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the death of nine victims by a gunman focusing on people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
