Six British youngsters have been taken into care in Austria after they had been discovered to have been residing in an deserted wine cellar with their mother and father.
Police have stated their father, a 54-year-old Austrian, is a member of the far-right Reichsburger motion and is a identified Holocaust denier.
Social companies had been referred to as to the property in Obritz, close to the Czech border, when locals grew to become involved for the kids’s welfare.
However once they tried to get in, the daddy attacked them with pepper spray.
Police had been referred to as and the person was arrested. He has since been launched on bail as an investigation is carried out.
The youngsters – aged between seven months and 5 years – had been taken with their mom to be checked out in hospital.
Police spokesman Stefan Loidl stated they had been “in well being situation and weren’t uncared for”.
The youngsters are at present being taken care of by social companies.
Native authorities stated they believed the household had been residing within the unlawful hideout for a number of months however there had been complaints about them over the previous few weeks.
Erich Greil, Orbritz deputy mayor, stated: “The surveillance cameras in entrance of the cellar had been significantly annoying and residents generally heard youngsters’s voices within the basement and as quickly as they approached it was quiet.”
Police stated there was no suggestion of any sexual abuse of the kids discovered within the cellar.
Mr Loidl added {that a} “lengthy gun, two crossbows and a number of other compressed air weapons”, had been discovered within the cellar.
