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Approximately 50 vehicles have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau near Frankfurt, according to police.

Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.

Police report they were notified late on Wednesday, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.

The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they added.

Officers then located numerous other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

Nazi symbols are prohibited in Germany under laws outlawing the public display of Nazi symbols.

Law enforcement report early analysis indicate the fluid was probably human blood.

"There is still no lead as to where it came from; authorities are presently not cognizant of any injuries in connection with the incident," they added.

Municipal representatives said they were working "to unravel the case" and have asked to the residents for information.

A high-ranking official commented the vandalism made him stunned and required to be resolved promptly.

"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reawakens the pain of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he wrote on online, recalling the killing of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of foreign heritage in 2020.