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Around fifty cars have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the German town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to law enforcement.

Cars, building surfaces and postal boxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.

Police say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued liquid.

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

Police then discovered multiple other smeared cars and house walls in the nearby vicinity.

These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of symbols from the Nazi era.

Law enforcement report preliminary tests show the liquid was likely blood from a person.

"There is still no clue as to its origin; investigators are not yet informed of any physical harm in relation with the event," they added.

City officials stated they were trying "to solve the case" and have appealed to the community for information.

An important political figure stated the attack left him speechless and needed to be resolved quickly.

"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the far-right violent incident in 2020," he stated on online, recalling the death of nine people by a assailant aiming at people of foreign heritage in February 2020.