Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 cars have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm law enforcement.
Vehicles, walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.
The fluid had been drawn in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.
Law enforcement then found multiple other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police report initial examinations indicate the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to where it came from; investigators are presently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the event," they added.
City officials said they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A senior official commented the attack left him without words and required to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine individuals by a shooter aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.
