Local Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.
Police say they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Police then discovered multiple other marked cars and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police state initial examinations show the fluid was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; authorities are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the event," they stated.
City officials said they were working "to solve the incident" and have asked to the community for information.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism left him stunned and needed to be resolved quickly.
"This event strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on online, recalling the killing of nine people by a gunman focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
