Area Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.
Cars, walls and postboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored substance.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then found numerous other vandalized vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report early analysis show the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any harm in connection with the event," they added.
City officials said they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A senior representative commented the incident made him speechless and required to be addressed promptly.
"This act hits the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine people by a assailant focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.
