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Area Police

Approximately 50 vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau close to Frankfurt, according to authorities.

Cars, exterior walls and postal boxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they announced in a release.

Law enforcement report they were alerted in the late hours on Wednesday night, when a individual observed that a vehicle in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been smeared with a reddish substance.

The substance had been placed in the form of a banned symbol, they stated.

Officers then located many other marked automobiles and house walls in the adjacent neighborhood.

These symbols are prohibited in Germany under legislation banning the public exhibition of Nazi-era symbols.

Officials say initial examinations show the liquid was most likely blood from a person.

"At present there remains no lead as to where it came from; authorities are presently not informed of any physical harm in connection with the event," they commented.

Local authorities said they were attempting "to resolve the mystery" and have asked to the community for details.

A senior political figure said the incident rendered him speechless and required to be addressed promptly.

"This act strikes at the very heart of Hanau and reopens the wounds of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he stated on online, referring to the murder of nine people by a assailant targeting individuals of immigrant origin in five years prior.