Area Police
Roughly 50 vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Law enforcement say they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then located many other vandalized automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Police say preliminary tests suggest the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the incident," they commented.
City officials said they were working "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the community for information.
An important political figure commented the incident rendered him without words and needed to be addressed quickly.
"This incident hits the center of Hanau and revives the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on a platform, referring to the murder of nine victims by a shooter aiming at people of migrant background in 2020.
