Area Police
Roughly 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement report they were notified late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been placed in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Police then discovered many other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the substance was likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; authorities are not yet informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they added.
Local authorities said they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be addressed quickly.
"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the killing of nine victims by a gunman aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
