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Around fifty vehicles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.

Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a statement.

Law enforcement report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.

The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they added.

Law enforcement then discovered many other marked vehicles and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

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

Law enforcement say initial examinations indicate the substance was most likely human blood.

"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are presently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.

City officials said they were working "to unravel the incident" and have requested to the residents for details.

A senior representative commented the incident made him without words and required to be solved rapidly.

"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist violent incident half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the killing of nine victims by a shooter aiming at individuals of migrant background in February 2020.