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Approximately fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be blood from a person in the German city of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.

Automobiles, walls and postboxes were vandalized, in some cases with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.

Law enforcement report they were notified during the night on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish-hued liquid.

The fluid had been applied in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.

Police then found numerous other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.

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

"At present there remains no lead as to its origin; investigators are presently not informed of any physical harm in relation with the incident," they commented.

Local authorities said they were trying "to resolve the mystery" and have appealed to the community for tips.

A high-ranking political figure commented the attack left him speechless and needed to be resolved quickly.

"This event affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack in 2020," he stated on online, referring to the death of nine victims by a gunman focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in February 2020.