Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Officers report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a resident discovered that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the pattern of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized automobiles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police report preliminary tests suggest the substance was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important political figure said the vandalism left him speechless and needed to be solved promptly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the right-wing attack half a decade ago," he posted on a platform, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in February 2020.
