Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a statement.
Law enforcement state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then located multiple other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report early analysis indicate the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to its source; investigators are not yet informed of any harm in relation with the incident," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the residents for information.
A senior representative said the attack made him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the death of nine victims by a assailant targeting residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
