Automobiles in Germany's Town Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Law Enforcement Report

Area Police

Around fifty cars have been smeared with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.

Cars, walls and postal boxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.

Police report they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a red-colored substance.

The fluid had been placed in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they reported.

Officers then located numerous other vandalized automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.

Officials state preliminary tests show the substance was likely human bodily fluid.

"At present there remains no clue as to its origin; authorities are not yet cognizant of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they commented.

City officials said they were trying "to unravel the mystery" and have asked to the residents for tips.

A high-ranking official commented the attack rendered him without words and had to be addressed quickly.

"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the right-wing violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.