Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they stated in a official communication.
Officers state they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered many other marked cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say early analysis indicate the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no lead as to its source; officials are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the event," they stated.
Municipal representatives announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative said the vandalism rendered him speechless and had to be solved quickly.
"This incident affects the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a assailant targeting people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
