Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.
Vehicles, exterior walls and postboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they announced in a statement.
Police report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state early analysis suggest the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they added.
City officials said they were trying "to resolve the case" and have requested to the public for information.
A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism left him without words and had to be solved promptly.
"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a assailant targeting individuals of migrant background in five years prior.
