Area Police
Around fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Officers state they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then discovered many other smeared cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Police report preliminary tests suggest the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; investigators are presently not informed of any harm in connection with the event," they commented.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the case" and have asked to the public for information.
A high-ranking representative stated the vandalism made him speechless and required to be solved rapidly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he stated on online, recalling the murder of nine people by a gunman focusing on residents of foreign heritage in 2020.
