Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Police then discovered many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say initial examinations show the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the event," they commented.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the residents for tips.
An important political figure commented the incident made him without words and required to be solved quickly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
