Area Police
Around 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers state they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found multiple other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of Nazi symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests show the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no clue as to where it came from; authorities are not yet informed of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior official commented the attack made him without words and required to be solved quickly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the right-wing attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of migrant background in February 2020.
