Austrian sex offender Josef Fritzl believes a new court ruling this week will free him from the high-security prison where he has been for the past 15 years to a regular prison, according to reports.
A panel will decide on Tuesday whether the 89-year-old should be transferred from the Stein prison in Krems an der Donau, a unit for the mentally ill where he is serving a life sentence after being accused of incest and other crimes. atrocious crimes.
The monster has already packed his few belongings into two sports bags. Crown Diary reports citing guard officials, as he expects to be transferred “immediately” after the hearing.
At a previous hearing, Fritzl was granted parole in January, but this was later annulled by the Higher Regional Court in Vienna. In March he stated that “the facts necessary to make a decision on such a conditional dismissal have not yet been clarified.”
Fritzl was locked up in 2009 after admitting to raping his daughter Elisabeth, holding her captive in an underground dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, one of whom died as a result of his neglect.
Josef Fritzl during the fourth day of his trial at the St. Poelten rural court in 2009.
A panel of three judges will decide whether Fritzl should be transferred from the high-security prison to a regular prison.
Now his defense lawyer, Astrid Wagner, says he no longer poses a danger and should be granted conditional release from prison.
At this week’s hearing, which will be held behind closed doors, three judges will weigh the allegations.
It is scheduled to be held for one hour starting at 1:00 p.m. and Wagner will give statements to the media before and after, it was reported.
Like the previous sentence, it is subject to appeal by Fritzl, his lawyer and the prosecution.
It is understood Fritzl would have to remain in Stein prison until a final decision is reached on any appeal.
The elderly prisoner suffers from progressive dementia that causes him to be absent, but he was able to follow the process at the last hearing, Wagner said.
Fritzl’s mental state has been evaluated by judicial psychiatrist Heidi Kastner over the past decade and a half.
In 2009, it described him as “extremely psychologically abnormal” and “emotionally illiterate”, but in its report this year concluded that he is no longer dangerous.
He said he suffers from dementia, is physically frail and needs a walker to get around, Austrian media reports.
Wagner argued that the report meant he should be considered for release and showed he no longer posed a threat.
An Austrian court today granted incest monster Josef Fritzl parole from a prison for the mentally ill, shortly after he was photographed outside prison for the first time in 15 years when he arrived at court today (pictured).
‘I wouldn’t be afraid to live with him in a shared apartment or to live with him in a nursing home. “He no longer has sexual desire,” he stated.
In January it was reported that the convict was seen in cafes near his prison in Krems an der Donau, northern Austria, apparently preparing for his release.
The respected regional weekly Bezirksblatt claimed that Fritzl “has been seen in different cafes in Krems.”
An editor at the Bezirksblatt newspaper, which has been covering the Fritzl case for many years, confirmed multiple sightings of the depraved prisoner tasting coffee.
Fritzl, who changed his name to Mayrhoff in an alleged attempt to evade physical attacks from other inmates, was locked up in 2009 after admitting to raping his daughter Elisabeth (pictured) and fathering seven children with her.
‘It’s true. “Several people I completely trust have told me they’ve seen it,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
‘It is not that a single resident is convinced that he has seen Fritzl. I obtained this information from several trusted acquaintances, independently of each other.’
The perverted pensioner will be eligible for parole in March this year under Austria’s lenient sentencing laws.
Inmates deemed ready for parole may be released depending on their conduct and physical and mental condition.
Fritzl was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, slavery and for the negligent homicide of one of his young children.
Elisabeth and her children lived in the basement of the family home in Amstetten, while Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie lived upstairs.
Elisabeth lived in this narrow, dingy basement for 24 years with her children.
His daughter Elisabeth, whom he abused from the age of 11, disappeared in 1984 when she was 18 years old.
She did not emerge until 2008 from the dungeon-like basement chamber in the city of Amstetten, where her father had held her captive. Fritzl built the basement himself.
The abuse led to the birth of seven children, three of whom remained in captivity with their mother.
One died at the hands of Fritzl, a matter of days after being born. His body was thrown into an incinerator. The other three were raised by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie.
