The man arrested on suspicion of keeping six young British children in his wine cellar for nine months has been identified as a conspiracy theorist and alleged Holocaust denier.
Obritz deputy mayor Erich Greil told the Sunday Times: "He’s not from here and has only been Obritz for a short time.The official said Landon could speak English and German.
He has ties to the German Reichsburger movement, which recently had a coup attempt on the German state foiled by authorities.A neighbour said: "Of course we knew the suspect. "He also wanted to buy our cellar last year but nobody really knew anything about what was going on." Mr Greil added that the children do not appear to have been mistreated and were seen walking around the town two weeks beforehand.
Josef Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar in Amstetten, 100 miles away in Lower Austria, for 24 years.
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