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Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by authorities.

Vehicles, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a official communication.

Officers state they were contacted in the late hours on Wednesday evening, when a individual noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been marked with a reddish fluid.

The fluid had been placed in the form of a swastika, they reported.

Officers then discovered numerous other marked cars and building exteriors in the adjacent neighborhood.

Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.

Law enforcement state early analysis indicate the substance was likely human blood.

"Currently there is no lead as to where it came from; authorities are currently not cognizant of any injuries in relation with the incident," they stated.

City officials said they were working "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the residents for information.

A senior political figure stated the incident left him stunned and had to be resolved promptly.

"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the killing of nine individuals by a assailant targeting individuals of foreign heritage in five years prior.