Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Police report they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then located numerous other smeared automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police say preliminary tests indicate the substance was probably human blood.
"There is still no indication as to its source; authorities are presently not aware of any injuries in association with the event," they added.
City officials announced they were working "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for tips.
A high-ranking official commented the vandalism made him without words and required to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine people by a gunman focusing on individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
