Area Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Police state they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then found multiple other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests indicate the liquid was most likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; authorities are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives announced they were working "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the public for tips.
A high-ranking official commented the incident left him without words and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident affects the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he stated on online, mentioning the death of nine individuals by a assailant targeting residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
