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Vienna
Updated Thursday, January 25, 2024-10:38
An Austrian court today decided to send Josef F. to a prison for common criminals, sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment for having locked up his daughter in a basement and raped his daughter for 24 years, a sentence he has served until now in a center for convicted persons with mental problems.
The "monster of Amstetten", who turns 89 next April, locked up his own daughter in 1984, sexually assaulted her for years and had seven children with her, who were born in the basement of the family home, without the rest of them. the family will find out.
The judicial decision, which will not be executed until it is final, means that he will continue serving his prison sentence, although his defense continues to request conditional release and considers this measure as a first step towards his release from prison.
That request for general parole, however, was rejected today by the court.
If the ruling is not appealed, Josef Fritz, who according to the Austrian media changed his last name to Mayrhoff some time ago, will spend the next ten years in prison under the condition that he undergoes psychiatric therapy.
The decision for him to leave the psychiatric center has been based on an expert opinion that indicates that due to the dementia he suffers, the circumstances for his current conditions of confinement no longer exist.
The defense has also indicated that the court has indicated that
the convicted person is no longer dangerous
, reports the APA agency.
His lawyer, Astrid Wagner, has assured that her client "is absolutely full of remorse."
When Fritzl's crime was discovered in 2008, it caused an international commotion and the aggressor father, then 73 years old, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a prison for criminals with psychiatric problems in Krems, 80 kilometers from Vienna.