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  • The Austrian incest perpetrator Josef Fritzl remains in custody.
  • A panel of three judges at the Krems Regional Court in Austria has decided that the now 88-year-old will not be released early for preventive reasons.
  • According to a spokesman for the regional court, the prisoner should be transferred from the enforcement of measures to the normal prison under certain conditions.

According to the court spokesman, the decision is not yet legally binding. Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment in March 2009. The charges in the trial were murder by omission, rape, deprivation of liberty, severe coercion, slavery and incest.

Legend:

Josef Fritzl during the trial in 2009.

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Since then, the trained electrical engineer has been in prison at the Stein prison near Krems and had to undergo therapy there.

Decades of torture for the daughter

In 1984, in the small Austrian town of Amstetten, Fritzl locked his then 18-year-old daughter in the soundproof cellar of his house. Over the next 24 years he raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her. One of them soon died. According to authorities, the wife, who lived on the first floor of the house with the rest of the family, was unaware of any of this.

The case broke in 2008 and made headlines around the world. Fritzl took on a new last name in prison.


SRF 4 News, January 19, 2024, 7:22 a.m.;


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