Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Automobiles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Officers report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say preliminary tests indicate the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to its source; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the public for information.
A senior official commented the vandalism made him without words and had to be resolved quickly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack in 2020," he stated on online, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
