Local Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say preliminary tests indicate the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any injuries in relation with the event," they added.
City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking official said the vandalism rendered him speechless and required to be solved rapidly.
"This incident affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of migrant background in February 2020.
