Josef Fritzl’s defense lawyer has released bizarre topless photographs from his mountain holiday after the latest attempt to transfer the incest monster from a high-security prison.
Astrid Wagner, 60, shared several snaps from her hiking holiday in Austria, which showed her leaning against a fountain and a fence, while wearing nothing but her hiking pants.
The eccentric lawyer posted similar photos in 2015, 2017 and 2020 due to “huge demand,” but said she “really [doesn’t] “I don’t want to provoke anyone” with her revealing photographs after previously being reported to the Austrian Bar Association for topless photographs.
Wagner’s most prominent client is Fritzl, 88, who has been imprisoned since 2009 after holding his daughter Elisabeth captive in his basement in the Austrian town of Amstetten for 24 years, raping her thousands of times and fathering her children.
The Austrian defense lawyer is trying to have Fritzl released from the high-security psychiatric prison he is currently in, claiming that he is no longer dangerous, but her latest attempt has been unsuccessful.
Astrid Wagner, 60, shared several snaps from her hiking holiday in Austria, which showed her leaning against a fountain and a fence, while wearing nothing but her hiking pants.
The Austrian defense lawyer is trying to have Fritzl released from the high-security psychiatric prison he is currently in, claiming that he is no longer dangerous, but her latest attempt has been unsuccessful.
Josef Fritzl during the fourth day of his trial at the St. Poelten rural court in 2009.
The eccentric lawyer posted similar photos in 2015, 2017 and 2020 due to “huge demand,” but said she “really [doesn’t] “I don’t want to provoke anyone” with her revealing photos after previously being reported to the Austrian Bar Association for topless photos.
A court in the city of Krems an der Donau had ordered in January that Fritzl be transferred to a regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit after he was told he was “no longer in danger of reoffending”, but this decision has since been overturned. .
Wagner helped Fritzl write the book ‘The Abyss of Josef F’, in which the incest monster describes how he came up with the idea of keeping his then 18-year-old daughter captive and the lengths he went to to explain his disappearance.
Surprisingly he said about Fritzl: “He is not a beast.”
His daughter Elisabeth, now 56 and given a new identity, previously said she hopes her evil father will be punished for his crimes “until death.”
Fritzl’s trial heard how he raped her 3,000 times in the rat-infested basement and how he punched and kicked her and eventually fathered seven children with her.
The mother lived downstairs with her children: Kerstin, born in 1988, Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002).
Meanwhile, Lisa (1992), Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) grew up upstairs in the house Fritzl shared with his wife Rosemarie in quiet Amstetten, central Austria, 78 kilometers from Linz.
Another son, named Micheal, died tragically from neglect shortly after birth.
Speaking through her lawyer Eva Plaz at her father’s trial, Elisabeth said she hopes he is never released.
“He wants the defendant to be held accountable until death,” Ms. Plaz said.
Previously the lawyer had said in court: ‘The accused has become master of life and death. He must be punished for this.’
Josef Fritzl was paroled from a prison for the mentally ill by an Austrian court in January, shortly after being photographed outside prison for the first time in 15 years.
Elisabeth Fritzl (pictured as a schoolgirl), now 56, was held prisoner by her father Josef in the basement of the family home in Austria from 1984 to 2008.
Fritzl, 88, is detained in Sankt Poelten prison and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
Elisabeth lived in this narrow, dingy basement for 24 years with her children.
Josef Fritzl during a four-week vacation in Pataya, Thailand, from January 1, 1998 to February 3, 1998
Fritzl, who has now changed his name to an undisclosed name, She has been in prison since her 2009 conviction for incest, rape, slavery, coercion and neglectful murder of her newborn child.
MailOnline reported that Elisabeth has built a new life with her bodyguard husband in an isolated house by the river, just half an hour from the dungeon where she was held captive for 24 years, living with her eldest daughter, Kerstin.
This comes after Fritzl wrote an apology letter earlier this year in which he claimed to be a “good father.”
‘I deeply regret all my actions. Best regards, Fritzl,” wrote the incestuous rapist.
“In fact, I was a good father,” he said, saying that he saved money for “the children’s education,” visited them often, helped them with household chores and even taught them to play instruments “and so on.”