Area Law Enforcement
Approximately fifty cars have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they stated in a statement.
Police state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday, when a individual observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued fluid.
The liquid had been applied in the shape of a swastika, they stated.
Law enforcement then found multiple other marked cars and building exteriors in the nearby vicinity.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.
Police say initial examinations suggest the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to its source; authorities are not yet informed of any physical harm in connection with the incident," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were trying "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior official stated the attack rendered him without words and required to be solved promptly.
"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine people by a shooter focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.
