Local Police
Around fifty vehicles have been marked with what appears to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Police report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.
Officers then located many other smeared cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws prohibiting the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.
Law enforcement state initial examinations suggest the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"Currently there is no indication as to where it came from; authorities are not yet aware of any harm in connection with the event," they added.
City officials stated they were trying "to solve the case" and have requested to the public for information.
A senior official commented the vandalism made him without words and required to be resolved quickly.
"This event affects the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist terrorist attack in 2020," he wrote on online, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
