Area Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The substance had been applied in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Officers then found numerous other marked automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police state preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"There is still no indication as to its source; officials are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the event," they stated.
City officials said they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the public for information.
A senior political figure commented the attack rendered him speechless and had to be addressed quickly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the murder of nine people by a gunman aiming at residents of foreign heritage in 2020.
