M@n who ‘held f@mily h0stage on farm for 9 years’

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The remote farmhouse where the family were kept (Picture: AFP)

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'Josef the Austrian' handyman accused of holding a family captive in Dutch house 'once belonged to a cult and believed he was better than Jesus'.

An Austrian handyman who allegedly held a family of six hostage in a Dutch farmhouse basement for nine years had previously lived next door to his 'victims' 16 years ago, a former neighbour has revealed.

Josef Brunner, 58, is accused of keeping the family – including pensioner Geert van Dorsten and his five adult children - beneath the floor of a remote property as they 'waited for the world to end'.

Brunner has been arrested for imprisoning the family in a 'secret room' as it emerged that some of the alleged victims can no longer speak.

The family of six were discovered after the eldest son, 25, walked to a nearby bar in Ruinerwold, 60 miles north of Amsterdam, on Sunday, ordered five beers, and asked for help.  

Officers found his four brothers and sisters, aged between 18 and 25, along with their father in a room hidden behind a staircase. 

Now a former neighbour has revealed how Brunner lived next door to the 'off-grid' family for a brief period in Hasslet, the Netherlands. 

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Jan Zon van Dorsten, 25, is the son who alerted Dutch police to the plight of his four brothers and sisters and their father, who were living in isolation at a remote house while apparently waiting 'for the end of times'

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Police bring in equipment into the farmhouse in Ruinerwold, 60 miles north of Amsterdam, where carpenter Josef Brunner, nicknamed Josef the Austrian, has been arrested for allegedly imprisoning his friend and his five children

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yes.. ippude chadiva...  sad story...

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