Local Police
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police report they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then located multiple other marked automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report initial examinations indicate the liquid was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important official stated the incident rendered him without words and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This event affects the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
