Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were defaced, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.
Officers state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored fluid.
The liquid had been drawn in the pattern of a swastika, they reported.
Law enforcement then located numerous other smeared cars and house walls in the surrounding area.
Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations outlawing the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.
Officials say early analysis show the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they added.
City officials said they were trying "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the public for details.
A high-ranking representative commented the incident made him without words and required to be addressed rapidly.
"This incident strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he posted on a platform, referring to the death of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of foreign heritage in five years prior.
