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Roughly fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German municipality of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.

Automobiles, building surfaces and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with swastikas, they announced in a release.

Officers say they were contacted late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued fluid.

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

Law enforcement then found multiple other marked automobiles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.

Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.

Law enforcement state initial examinations suggest the fluid was probably human bodily fluid.

"There is still no indication as to where it came from; investigators are currently not informed of any harm in association with the incident," they added.

City officials stated they were attempting "to unravel the mystery" and have requested to the public for information.

A senior official stated the attack made him speechless and had to be resolved promptly.

"This act hits the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, recalling the murder of nine individuals by a assailant focusing on residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.