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Around 50 cars have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.

Cars, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.

Officers state they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish liquid.

The substance had been applied in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.

Officers then located multiple other smeared cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.

Police state preliminary tests suggest the substance was most likely human blood.

"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they stated.

Local authorities announced they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the public for information.

A high-ranking official commented the vandalism made him stunned and required to be addressed rapidly.

"This incident affects the core of Hanau and reawakens the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack half a decade ago," he stated on a platform, mentioning the killing of nine victims by a shooter aiming at residents of migrant background in five years prior.