Local Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state early analysis show the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no lead as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any harm in association with the incident," they added.
Local authorities said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the residents for information.
A senior political figure commented the attack rendered him speechless and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the death of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in 2020.