Local Police
Around fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Police report they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been applied in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then found many other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi symbols.
Officials state early analysis indicate the fluid was most likely blood from a person.
"There is still no clue as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any harm in relation with the event," they stated.
City officials said they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for details.
A high-ranking official commented the incident left him without words and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and revives the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, mentioning the death of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
