Austrian officers give replace on Josef Fritzl’s advancing dementia

Austrian incest monster Josef Fritzl is to be placed under guardianship due to his advancing dementia, the Krems public prosecutor’s office has said.

Fritzl’s lawyer, Astrid Wagner, said she intends to fight the process by which the court will appoint another person to act on behalf of the 89-year-old because he has been deemed incapable of making decisions on his own.

It is typically done to prevent the abuse of the person involved by another party, but Wagner claims that the appointment of an adult representative to manage Fritzl’s affairs ‘not tenable.’

Although Fritzl has ‘beginning dementia and delusional episodes’, a representative is neither necessary nor justified as he has no business to attend to and does not own any property, said the lawyer.

It comes after Wagner revealed last month that the delusional Fritzl had instructed her to start looking for a new house in the country – despite judges recently denying him hope of an early release due to his ‘unprecedented’ criminality.

Josef Fritzl is seen during day four of his trial at the country court of St. Poelten in 2009. He was handed a life sentence

The 89-year-old was recently moved from a maximum security hospital wing for the criminally insane in Stein to a regular prison 

Fritzl’s lawyer, Astrid Wagner, said she intends to fight the process by which the court will appoint another person to act and make decisions on behalf of the 89-year-old 

Fritzl was locked up in 2009 after he admitted to raping his daughter Elisabeth (pictured) and fathering seven children with her

The depraved rapist fathered seven children by his daughter Elisabeth while he kept her as a sex slave in the basement of the family home. 

The 89-year-old, who was handed a life sentence in 2009, was recently moved from a maximum security hospital wing for the criminally insane in Stein to a regular prison.

The transfer, based on a decision by a three-member panel of the Krems Regional Court, became legally binding at the end of May.

In mid-May, a decision was also made on a general conditional release from the normal prison to freedom.

The authorities determined that this was ‘not possible for special preventive reasons’, according to Austrian media.

They added that, given the ‘unprecedented criminal energy in connection with the convicted crimes,’ it cannot be assumed that ‘future freedom from crime’ will be guaranteed.

Fritzl will be on a ten-year probation in the regular prison, meaning he could be returned to the higher security facility.

The regional court previously ruled in January that Fritzl no longer posed a threat to society, and therefore could be moved from a high-security prison to a normal jail.

Elisabeth and her children lived in the basement of the family home in Amstetten while Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie lived above 

This decision went on to be viewed as the first step in a process which could result in the Fritzl being released from prison completely.

Prosecutors then opposed the lower court’s decision, and the Vienna Higher Regional Court ruled that ‘the facts necessary for such a conditional release had not yet fully been clarified.’

The Vienna Regional Court ruled in the District Court of Krems had made the wrong decision, and that Fritzl still had the potential for aggression, and so was still a danger.

But in April, Fritzl’s lawyer managed to convince the Krems court that her client has a right to all the benefits of Austrian justice, which includes being released from a high-security prison if he is not dangerous.

Incest monster Josef Fritzl has been granted conditional release from a prison for the mentally ill by an Austrian court.

A hearing on April 30 was supplied with psychiatric and medical findings, on the basis of which the court determined that: ‘Due to a comprehensive, progressive dementia and physical deterioration, the prisoner’s combined personality disorder, which made the admission necessary, has been “buried” in such a way that the prisoner’s dangerousness has been reduced and no criminal offence with serious consequences is to be expected is.’

Fritzl’s heinous crimes, including rape, coercion, and imprisonment, sent shockwaves across Austria and Europe in 2008.

Elisabeth, who he abused from the age of 11, disappeared in 1984 at age 18. 

For more than two decades, Fritzl held his daughter captive in a cramped and mouldy basement beneath his home in Amstetten, which he built.

He raped his daughter thousands of times over many years, with the abuse resulting in the birth of seven children – three of which remained in captivity with their mother.

One died at the hands of Fritzl, a matter of days after being born. His disposed of the body in an incinerator. 

Elisabeth lived in this dingy, cramped basement for 24 years with her children

The other three were brought up by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, who lived in the house above.

The discovery of his sickening crimes occurred only when one of his daughters fell critically ill, forcing him to seek medical help.

Facing trial in March 2009 for a horrific litany of charges, including murder, rape, and slavery, Fritzl was handed a life sentence.

Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.