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Automobiles in German City Found Smeared with Swastikas in Human Blood, Police Confirm

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Authorities stated they were notified by a resident who noticed a automobile in Hanau marked with reddish substance

Approximately fifty automobiles have been covered with what seems to be human bodily fluid in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm police.

Cars, walls and postboxes were defaced, occasionally with swastikas, they reported in a release.

Police state they were alerted late on Wednesday, when a individual discovered that a car in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored substance.

The substance had been drawn in the form of a Nazi symbol, they added.

Police then found many other smeared vehicles and residential walls in the surrounding area.

Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public display of symbols from the Nazi era.

Law enforcement say initial examinations show the liquid was most likely human bodily fluid.

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

Local authorities announced they were attempting "to unravel the case" and have appealed to the public for information.

A high-ranking political figure said the vandalism left him stunned and needed to be resolved promptly.

"This event strikes at the center of Hanau and reawakens the trauma of the right-wing terrorist attack five years ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the murder of nine people by a gunman focusing on people of migrant background in five years prior.

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