Area Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of Nazi symbols.
Officials report initial examinations indicate the substance was probably human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are not yet aware of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the public for information.
A senior political figure said the vandalism rendered him without words and needed to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
