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Incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl allowed to move to regular prison by court in Austria
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Fritzl, who has now changed his name, raped his daughter whom he held captive for 24 years in a dungeon he built under his home, fathering seven children over the period.
The 89-year-old has been serving a life sentence in a prison unit for “mentally abnormal” inmates since his conviction in 2009 for incest, rape, enslavement, coercion and the murder by neglect of one of the children, a newborn boy.
While a transfer could, in principle, pave the way for Fritzl’s conditional release from prison altogether, the court has said such a request was unlikely to be approved due to “special preventive reasons.”
“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.
“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.
Prosecutors can still file a complaint against the decision to move him to a regular prison in a bid to get it overturned, as they did after the first ruling.
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