Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Officers report they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Police then found many other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state early analysis indicate the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; officials are presently not aware of any harm in connection with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior official stated the vandalism rendered him speechless and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he stated on social media, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a gunman targeting residents of immigrant origin in five years prior.
