Area Police
Roughly fifty cars have been smeared with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.
Police say they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found numerous other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement say preliminary tests show the substance was probably human blood.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they stated.
City officials stated they were working "to unravel the case" and have asked to the public for details.
An important political figure said the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be addressed rapidly.
"This act hits the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack in 2020," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine victims by a assailant focusing on residents of foreign heritage in February 2020.
