Local Police
Around fifty cars have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a release.
Law enforcement report they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The substance had been applied in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then found multiple other vandalized vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report preliminary tests show the fluid was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; investigators are presently not aware of any harm in relation with the incident," they added.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the public for information.
A high-ranking political figure commented the incident rendered him without words and required to be addressed quickly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine victims by a gunman aiming at residents of migrant background in February 2020.
