Area Police
Approximately fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Law enforcement report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then found numerous other smeared cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police state initial examinations show the substance was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; authorities are currently not informed of any injuries in relation with the incident," they added.
Municipal representatives announced they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the public for details.
A high-ranking political figure stated the vandalism made him without words and had to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on people of migrant background in February 2020.
