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Roughly fifty automobiles have been smeared with what appears to be human blood in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.
Police say they were notified during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish liquid.
The liquid had been drawn in the form of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then found multiple other marked cars and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under regulations prohibiting the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials state initial examinations show the fluid was likely blood from a person.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are presently not aware of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they commented.
Local authorities said they were attempting "to solve the incident" and have appealed to the residents for details.
A senior political figure said the attack left him stunned and had to be solved rapidly.
"This event strikes at the very heart of Hanau and revives the wounds of the far-right terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on online, mentioning the death of nine victims by a gunman aiming at people of migrant background in 2020.
