Local Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Law enforcement state they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then found many other marked vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police state initial examinations suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; investigators are currently not informed of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the public for information.
A senior representative said the vandalism rendered him without words and required to be addressed quickly.
"This event hits the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack in 2020," he posted on social media, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
