Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other marked automobiles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"There is still no clue as to its source; investigators are currently not cognizant of any harm in relation with the occurrence," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism left him stunned and required to be solved quickly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
