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Roughly fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.

Automobiles, building surfaces and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with prohibited symbols, they announced in a statement.

Officers report they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a resident noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.

The fluid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.

Law enforcement then located many other smeared cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.

Law enforcement state preliminary tests show the substance was probably human blood.

"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the event," they added.

City officials announced they were trying "to unravel the incident" and have asked to the residents for details.

An important political figure stated the vandalism left him speechless and had to be addressed promptly.

"This act affects the core of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he posted on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a shooter aiming at residents of migrant background in February 2020.