Area Police
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Automobiles, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers state they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued substance.
The substance had been placed in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Police then discovered numerous other marked cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the fluid was likely human blood.
"There is still no lead as to its source; investigators are presently not aware of any harm in association with the event," they stated.
Local authorities said they were working "to resolve the incident" and have appealed to the community for details.
A high-ranking official commented the incident rendered him speechless and had to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine victims by a assailant targeting residents of immigrant origin in 2020.
