Area Law Enforcement
Approximately 50 vehicles have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they stated in a release.
Officers report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Police then discovered multiple other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests indicate the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to its source; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have requested to the residents for information.
A high-ranking official stated the vandalism left him speechless and required to be solved promptly.
"This incident hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on online, recalling the murder of nine victims by a gunman aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.
