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Roughly 50 automobiles have been covered with what appears to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to authorities.

Cars, building surfaces and postboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a release.

Law enforcement say they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a resident noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a red-colored fluid.

The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they stated.

Law enforcement then found many other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.

Nazi symbols are banned in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.

Officials report initial examinations suggest the substance was probably human bodily fluid.

"There is still no indication as to its origin; officials are presently not informed of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they commented.

Local authorities announced they were working "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the community for details.

A senior representative commented the incident made him stunned and needed to be solved quickly.

"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he stated on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a assailant aiming at people of foreign heritage in 2020.