Area Police
Roughly fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a official communication.
Officers report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then located multiple other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state early analysis suggest the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any injuries in connection with the event," they commented.
City officials said they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the public for information.
A senior political figure stated the incident made him without words and required to be solved quickly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he posted on social media, mentioning the murder of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
