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Roughly 50 automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's city of Hanau near Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a release.
Police say they were alerted late on Wednesday night, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued liquid.
The fluid had been placed in the pattern of a Nazi symbol, they added.
Officers then found numerous other smeared cars and residential walls in the nearby vicinity.
These symbols are illegal in Germany under laws outlawing the public exhibition of Nazi symbols.
Police state preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to its source; authorities are not yet aware of any injuries in relation with the incident," they added.
Municipal representatives said they were working "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the community for information.
A high-ranking political figure stated the incident made him without words and had to be solved rapidly.
"This incident hits the very heart of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist terrorist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on online, referring to the killing of nine victims by a shooter focusing on residents of migrant background in five years prior.
