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Within months, Cauchi's mum contacted his psychiatrist with concerns about her son's mental state after finding notes showing he believed he was "under satanic control".

“When it was the satanic panic, there was glam, heavy and black metal. There’s always a response to mainstream politics, and music is the pendulum swing in effect.”

"I have no interest in being part of this fascist and satanic system," he told the BBC's Jenny Hill, when she visited his "kingdom" in eastern Germany.

A growing chorus of evangelical leaders has taken to calling empathy "sinful," "toxic," and "satanic."

He had recently revealed he was questioning his gender, and says the leaders of the camp told him this was "satanic" and that he was a "reincarnation of the devil."