Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they reported in a statement.
Law enforcement state they were contacted late on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The fluid had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they added.
Police then located numerous other smeared automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of Nazi symbols.
Officials say preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; officials are not yet cognizant of any harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have requested to the public for information.
An important official said the attack left him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and revives the trauma of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of foreign heritage in February 2020.
