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Roughly 50 automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.

Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were defaced, sometimes with prohibited symbols, they announced in a official communication.

Officers state they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.

The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.

Law enforcement then found many other marked automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

Swastikas are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.

Law enforcement state early analysis suggest the liquid was most likely blood from a person.

"There is still no indication as to where it came from; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they commented.

Municipal representatives stated they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the community for information.

A senior official commented the vandalism rendered him stunned and had to be resolved rapidly.

"This incident hits the core of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing violent incident five years ago," he stated on online, mentioning the killing of nine people by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in 2020.