Local Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Police say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found multiple other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police report initial examinations indicate the liquid was most likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; authorities are currently not informed of any harm in association with the occurrence," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior official commented the incident left him stunned and had to be solved quickly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the right-wing violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, recalling the death of nine people by a shooter aiming at residents of immigrant origin in February 2020.
