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Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm police.

Vehicles, walls and postboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.

Law enforcement say they were notified late on Wednesday night, when a man discovered that a automobile in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish fluid.

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

Law enforcement then found numerous other marked vehicles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.

Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation prohibiting the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.

Law enforcement report preliminary tests indicate the liquid was probably blood from a person.

"Currently there is no indication as to its source; authorities are presently not cognizant of any harm in relation with the occurrence," they commented.

City officials announced they were working "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for tips.

A senior official commented the vandalism made him speechless and needed to be solved quickly.

"This act hits the center of Hanau and revives the pain of the extremist violent incident in 2020," he wrote on social media, recalling the death of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on people of foreign heritage in five years prior.