Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Police say they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Law enforcement then found multiple other marked cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say early analysis suggest the fluid was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; officials are currently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the community for details.
An important official said the incident left him stunned and had to be resolved promptly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, recalling the death of nine people by a shooter targeting people of migrant background in 2020.