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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Conspiracist Tom Landon has been arrested by Austrian copsCredit: Twitter
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Cops stormed a property within the Austrian village of ObritzCredit: ORF
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The home had a number of CCTV cameras installedCredit: ORF
A girl and 6 youngsters had been found languishing in a wine cellar below 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 “needed a cellar for every little one,” in accordance with the village’s deputy mayor Erich Greil.
Talking to The Sunday Occasions, he added: “He is not from right here and has solely been [in] Obritz for a short while.”
One other native resident advised The Occasions: “He additionally needed 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 mentioned the Brit, till not too long ago, is reported to have labored in IT again within the UK capital.
Cops are attempting to hint information 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 a variety of CCTV cameras.
Nevertheless, each time anybody approached the constructing, it went instantly quiet.
After Landon allegedly attacked the 2 officers with pepper spray throughout a routine inspection, cops had been known as.
After 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 needed 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 a variety of books denouncing Austria’s authorities.
Certainly one of his books, Rote Sau, that means Crimson Sow and printed in 2019, gave his deal with as East Finchley in north London.
Different ebook titles in German translated as The Judas Precept and Soiled Justice.
He advised cops he deliberate to remain within the cellar, which he reportedly purchased by a British firm, for a day or two longer.
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Officers had been reportedly attacked with pepper spray on an inspectionCredit: ORF
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A few of Landon’s self-published booksCredit: Twitter
Landon is listed at Corporations Home as being the director of two companies, one in every of which has since been dissolved.
An Austrian police supply mentioned: “With Interpol we’re working to establish the youngsters who we consider could have been born within the UK.
“The person and his spouse, who’s British, had actually lived within the UK and had connections there.”
Landon has ties to the Austrian department of the far-right German Reichsburger motion, which embraces a variety of conspiracy theories.
The suitable-wing extremist motion believes that the German empire nonetheless exists because it did previous to World Struggle II.
Austria’s Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported: “The presumed Reich citizen is thought to officers, was firmly satisfied of weird conspiracy theories and had apparently utterly ‘drifted away’ because the Ukraine struggle.”
One native resident mentioned: “After all we knew the suspect. He additionally needed to purchase our cellar final yr however no person actually knew something about what was occurring.”
Landon can be mentioned to have written a musical about Austrian rock star Falco, recognized for his 1985 hit Rock Me Amadeus.
Falco was killed in a automobile crash within the Dominican Republic and Landon, who was dwelling within the Caribbean nation on the time, claimed to have discovered the physique and mentioned that the singer’s true reason for dying was coated up.
Comparisons have been drawn between Landon’s case and the sickening crimes of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who stored his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for twenty-four years, throughout which period she was compelled to have his seven kids.
Nevertheless, there isn’t any purpose to consider the youngsters, on this case, had been mistreated, mentioned Greil, who noticed the household strolling round within the village two weeks earlier.