Area Law Enforcement
Around 50 vehicles have been marked with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.
Automobiles, walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident observed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored liquid.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they stated.
Officers then discovered multiple other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Law enforcement report preliminary tests suggest the substance was most likely human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no lead as to its source; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities stated they were working "to unravel the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A high-ranking official stated the attack rendered him without words and required to be resolved quickly.
"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a gunman targeting people of migrant background in five years prior.
