Area Police
Around 50 cars have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.
Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were vandalized, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.
Police report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.
The fluid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then discovered multiple other marked vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say early analysis show the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any injuries in relation with the occurrence," they commented.
Municipal representatives said they were trying "to solve the case" and have asked to the residents for details.
An important official said the attack made him without words and had to be resolved promptly.
"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and revives the trauma of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he wrote on a platform, referring to the death of nine people by a gunman targeting people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
