Austrian court lets incestuous rapist Fritzl move to regular prison

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

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. "He no longer poses a threat that requires being held in a forensic-therapeutic centre," the court said, using a more recent term for where he is being detained.A transfer could pave the way for Fritzl's conditional release from prison altogether, and Fritzl's lawyer Astrid Wagner has said she would apply for such a release within a year of his transfer.

"In the same decision, the three-judge panel also ruled that a conditional release from regular custody, i.e. being freed, is not possible for special preventive reasons," the statement said, referring to the"unprecedented criminal energy" he used.Wagner, his lawyer, told oe24 TV she was undeterred.

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