Area Police
Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Police say they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then located multiple other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Police say initial examinations suggest the liquid was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; officials are currently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities announced they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the community for information.
A senior representative commented the vandalism left him without words and had to be solved quickly.
"This event affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.
