A conspiracy theorist who was arrested after six British children were found in a cellar has said spoken out saying he's nothing like monster Josef Fritzl.
Tom Landon, 54, spent 24 hours in police custody after officials found three boys and three girls aged between seven months and seven years in a cellar near the Czech border in Austria.
It was reported that social workers had been called to the property in Orbitz, just 60 miles north of Vienna, after neighbours reported children crying.
Mr Landon, who was an IT worker in North London before moving to Austria, claims the root of the issue is that local deputy mayor Erich Greil was annoyed by his "off-grid" lifestyle.
He also said he wasn't an enemy of the state and rubbished comparisons to Fritzl.
Fritzl fathered seven children with his daughter and kept her locked in a cellar dungeon for 24 years.
The now 87-year-old was jailed for life in Amstetten, a town in Lower Austria, Austria, in March 2009, for keeping his daughter Elisabeth in the basement dungeon he had built himself.
While trapped there he raped her repeatedly and even fathered seven children with her.
Mr Landon has also been reported to be a Reichsburger, a revisionist group that believes Germany in its current form is not a sovereign state. Some of its members are right-wing extremists.
Speaking to the MailOnline, Mr Landon said: "I have been accused of being the new Josef Fritzl but it couldn't be further from the truth.
"I am not an enemy of the state, I am a philanthropist and above all a loving father."
Mr Landon, who has written more than 30 books critical of his country's government, also said he wasn't a 'doomsday prepper', someone who thinks a catastrophic disaster is on the way. They often store food and other supplies like ammunition.
He described himself as a "family man" who wants to make sure he has "everything my children" need.
He said his children are not British because they were all born in Austria, but they were not registered and were all homeschooled.
He added that he had bought six properties for his children so they could all live together, but says the deputy mayor has ruined his plans.
Mr Landon said: "We chose not to register the children but they are all mine and now we will have to go to Vienna to take DNA tests to prove they are ours. If the authorities were so concerned why have they let the children come back to us?"
He added: "I bought these six properties for the children and I wanted us all to live together when they were older but now this plan has been ruined because the deputy mayor didn't want us here."
Local reports from the Kronen Zeitung say Mr Landon was "known to officials" and "was firmly convinced of bizarre conspiracy theories."
Mr Greil said previously: "The surveillance cameras in front of the cellar were particularly annoying, and residents sometimes heard children's voices in the basement, and as soon as they approached it was quiet."
He also said Landon "wanted a cellar for each child."
