A BRIT conspiracy theorist who held his household in a cellar for 9 months deliberate a community of subterranean lairs for every of his youngsters, it’s alleged.
Holocaust denier Tom Landon was arrested by police on Sunday after reportedly attacking social staff with pepper spray.
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A girl and 6 youngsters had been found languishing in a wine cellar beneath the distant Austrian property, together with a number of weapons.
Officers consider the household lived in a community of tunnels beneath the tiny village of Obritz, some 60 miles north of capital Vienna, close to the border with the Czech Republic.
It has now emerged the 54-year-old “wished a cellar for every youngster,” based on the village’s deputy mayor Erich Greil.
Talking to The Sunday Instances, he added: “He isn’t from right here and has solely been [in] Obritz for a short while.”
One other native resident informed The Instances: “He additionally wished to purchase our cellar final yr however no person actually knew something about what was occurring.”
It’s reported the eight had been dwelling within the cellar for the previous 9 months however had been beforehand dwelling in London.
Greil stated the Brit, till just lately, is reported to have labored in IT again within the UK capital.
Cops try to hint data on the youngsters, none of whom had been registered in Austria.
Authorities officers had been tipped off by neighbours, who claimed that they had heard kids’s voices coming from the constructing, which had various CCTV cameras.
Nevertheless, at any time when anybody approached the constructing, it went all of a sudden quiet.
After Landon allegedly attacked the 2 officers with pepper spray throughout a routine inspection, cops had been known as.
Once they stormed the cellar, they discovered Landon barricaded inside together with a 40-year-old girl and 6 kids, aged between seven months and 5 years.
A number of weapons had been additionally found within the cellar, which had been fitted with doorways and home windows however was deemed unfit for human habitation.
Each Landon and the lady had been launched after being questioned by authorities, however all the kids dwelling on the property have reportedly been taken into care.
He additionally wished to purchase our cellar final yr however no person actually knew something about what was occurring
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He’s believed to be a “doomsday prepper”, the place one builds their life round getting ready for a “main catastrophe or cataclysmic occasion”.
Landon had reportedly self-published various books denouncing Austria’s authorities.
One in every of his books, Rote Sau, which means Crimson Sow and printed in 2019, gave his tackle as East Finchley in north London.
Different guide titles in German translated as The Judas Precept and Soiled Justice.
He informed cops he deliberate to remain within the cellar, which he reportedly purchased by means of a British firm, for a day or two longer.
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Landon is listed at Corporations Home as being the director of two corporations, one among which has since been dissolved.
An Austrian police supply stated: “With Interpol we’re working to determine the youngsters who we consider might have been born within the UK.
“The person and his spouse, who’s British, had definitely lived within the UK and had connections there.”
Landon has ties to the Austrian department of the far-right German Reichsburger motion, which embraces various conspiracy theories.
The suitable-wing extremist motion believes that the German empire nonetheless exists because it did previous to World Battle II.
Austria’s Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported: “The presumed Reich citizen is understood to officers, was firmly satisfied of weird conspiracy theories and had apparently fully ‘drifted away’ for the reason that Ukraine struggle.”
One native resident stated: “In fact we knew the suspect. He additionally wished to purchase our cellar final yr however no person actually knew something about what was occurring.”
Landon can also be stated to have written a musical about Austrian rock star Falco, identified for his 1985 hit Rock Me Amadeus.
Falco was killed in a automotive crash within the Dominican Republic and Landon, who was dwelling within the Caribbean nation on the time, claimed to have discovered the physique and stated that the singer’s true explanation for loss of life was lined up.
Comparisons have been drawn between Landon’s case and the sickening crimes of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who saved his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for twenty-four years, throughout which era she was compelled to have his seven kids.
Nevertheless, there isn’t any purpose to consider the youngsters, on this case, had been mistreated, stated Greil, who noticed the household strolling round within the village two weeks earlier.
