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Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, according to authorities.

Automobiles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with prohibited symbols, they reported in a official communication.

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

The substance had been placed in the pattern of a banned symbol, they reported.

Law enforcement then found multiple other marked automobiles and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.

Swastikas are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.

Police say initial examinations show the fluid was most likely human bodily fluid.

"At present there remains no clue as to its source; investigators are currently not aware of any physical harm in association with the occurrence," they stated.

Local authorities announced they were working "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the residents for information.

A senior political figure stated the vandalism rendered him without words and had to be solved promptly.

"This event hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a gunman focusing on people of foreign heritage in February 2020.