Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they announced in a statement.
Officers say they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored liquid.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Police then found many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are banned in Germany under legislation prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report early analysis indicate the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are currently not cognizant of any harm in relation with the incident," they commented.
City officials announced they were working "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the residents for information.
A high-ranking representative said the incident made him without words and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he posted on online, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a shooter targeting people of migrant background in 2020.
