Local Police
Approximately 50 automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Police say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Police then located multiple other smeared automobiles and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests show the substance was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no clue as to where it came from; authorities are not yet aware of any harm in association with the incident," they added.
City officials stated they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the community for information.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism made him without words and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack in 2020," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
