Local Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.
Police report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been applied in the form of a swastika, they added.
Officers then discovered many other vandalized cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state early analysis suggest the substance was most likely human blood.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they commented.
City officials announced they were attempting "to solve the case" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking representative said the attack rendered him without words and needed to be resolved rapidly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the murder of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in February 2020.
