Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to police.
Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.
The substance had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Police then discovered many other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say early analysis indicate the fluid was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to its source; officials are currently not cognizant of any injuries in relation with the incident," they added.
City officials said they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the residents for information.
A senior political figure commented the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be resolved rapidly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he posted on online, mentioning the murder of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at residents of foreign heritage in 2020.
