Local Police
Around 50 automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they stated in a release.
Police report they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Officers then located multiple other vandalized vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any harm in connection with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to solve the incident" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior official stated the vandalism made him speechless and had to be resolved quickly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist attack in 2020," he stated on a platform, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a shooter targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
