Austrian court lets incestuous rapist Fritzl move to regular prison


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  • Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Journalists watch a TV screen inside the media tent as 73-year-old Austrian Josef Fritzl appears in court on the fourth day of his trial in St. Poelten March 19, 2009. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/ File Photo

VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian court said on Tuesday the country's most infamous living criminal, incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl, could move to regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit but he was still far from being eligible for release.

Fritzl, who has now changed his name, raped his daughter as he held her captive for 24 years in a dungeon he built under his home, fathering her seven children. The case attracted worldwide attention when it came to light in 2008.

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