Area Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Officers report they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then discovered numerous other marked cars and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
Local authorities stated they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have requested to the residents for information.
A senior representative said the attack left him stunned and had to be resolved quickly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the far-right violent incident five years ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the death of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.
