Area Police
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then found numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials state early analysis suggest the fluid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are presently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities said they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be addressed promptly.
"This incident strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, recalling the killing of nine people by a shooter aiming at individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
