Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Police report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Police then found multiple other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say initial examinations suggest the substance was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in association with the incident," they commented.
City officials said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have asked to the public for tips.
An important political figure stated the attack rendered him without words and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine victims by a shooter targeting people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
