Area Police
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Police say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they stated.
Police then found numerous other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say initial examinations suggest the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities said they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the residents for tips.
A high-ranking official commented the incident left him stunned and needed to be addressed promptly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on social media, recalling the murder of nine individuals by a assailant targeting people of migrant background in five years prior.
