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Roughly fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.

Automobiles, exterior walls and postboxes were vandalized, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.

Law enforcement report they were notified in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish-hued substance.

The liquid had been placed in the pattern of a swastika, they added.

Police then located many other marked vehicles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.

Law enforcement report early analysis show the substance was likely human blood.

"At present there remains no clue as to its source; officials are presently not aware of any harm in relation with the occurrence," they stated.

Local authorities said they were working "to resolve the case" and have requested to the public for information.

A senior representative stated the attack rendered him stunned and needed to be resolved promptly.

"This incident affects the center of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the far-right attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, referring to the murder of nine people by a shooter targeting residents of foreign heritage in five years prior.