Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were notified during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then located numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests show the liquid was likely human blood.
"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to solve the case" and have asked to the community for tips.
A high-ranking political figure commented the attack rendered him stunned and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right violent incident half a decade ago," he posted on online, referring to the killing of nine people by a gunman focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
