Local Police
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state early analysis suggest the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; officials are not yet aware of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities said they were trying "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A senior official commented the vandalism left him speechless and had to be addressed promptly.
"This act affects the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing attack in 2020," he posted on online, recalling the murder of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.
