Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued fluid.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered multiple other smeared vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police state preliminary tests show the substance was most likely human blood.
"There is still no clue as to where it came from; investigators are not yet aware of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism left him stunned and had to be addressed promptly.
"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on a platform, referring to the death of nine people by a gunman focusing on people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
