Area Police
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Law enforcement state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Police then discovered multiple other smeared vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report preliminary tests indicate the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; officials are presently not informed of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were working "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for information.
A senior official stated the attack left him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist attack five years ago," he posted on online, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a gunman targeting residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
