Area Police
Around fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Police report they were notified during the night on Wednesday, when a resident discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The substance had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then discovered many other marked cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no indication as to its origin; authorities are presently not aware of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials announced they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have asked to the public for details.
A senior official commented the incident rendered him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This event strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine victims by a shooter focusing on residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
