Local Police
Around 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a statement.
Police say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say initial examinations show the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are presently not aware of any injuries in relation with the incident," they added.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative commented the incident rendered him speechless and required to be solved quickly.
"This incident hits the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the far-right attack in 2020," he posted on social media, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a assailant aiming at people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
