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Around 50 automobiles have been covered with what appears to be blood from a person in the German municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.

Vehicles, exterior walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a release.

Officers say they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.

The liquid had been applied in the shape of a Nazi symbol, they added.

Police then discovered numerous other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of Nazi symbols.

Officials report preliminary tests show the fluid was likely human blood.

"At present there remains no indication as to its origin; authorities are presently not informed of any harm in association with the event," they commented.

City officials said they were working "to resolve the case" and have asked to the community for information.

A high-ranking representative stated the incident rendered him speechless and needed to be resolved promptly.

"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the far-right attack half a decade ago," he stated on social media, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in 2020.