Local Law Enforcement
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to police.
Automobiles, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a individual noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been applied in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.
Law enforcement then discovered many other vandalized cars and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under regulations outlawing the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials report preliminary tests suggest the liquid was likely blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to where it came from; authorities are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in association with the incident," they stated.
City officials announced they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important political figure commented the vandalism rendered him stunned and required to be resolved rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, recalling the murder of nine people by a shooter aiming at residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.
