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Around 50 vehicles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the German town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.

Cars, walls and mailboxes were marked, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a official communication.

Officers say they were alerted during the night on Wednesday night, when a resident observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued fluid.

The fluid had been applied in the shape of a banned symbol, they added.

Police then found many other smeared automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

Swastikas are banned in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi-era symbols.

Law enforcement say preliminary tests suggest the liquid was probably human bodily fluid.

"Currently there is no lead as to its origin; investigators are not yet aware of any harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.

Local authorities announced they were trying "to solve the mystery" and have appealed to the residents for details.

An important representative said the vandalism made him without words and needed to be addressed rapidly.

"This act strikes at the center of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist attack in 2020," he stated on social media, referring to the murder of nine individuals by a shooter focusing on people of foreign heritage in 2020.