Josef Fritzl should actually have been conditionally released from prison. This was decided by a three-judge panel of the Krems Regional Court at the end of January. Fritzl was sentenced to life in the Amstetten incest case and placed in an institution for mentally abnormal criminals.
The Vienna Higher Regional Court has now overturned this decision, said Ferdinand Schuster, spokesman for the Krems Regional Court. Fritzl is due to be heard in court again and will also be re-examined.
Dementia disease status
The Higher Regional Court gave the Krems Regional Court one Procedural supplement on. Specifically, his dangerousness and the status of his dementia should be clarified. The most recent psychiatric report needs to be updated, said Schuster.
“Unlike the court of first instance, the Vienna Higher Regional Court came to the conclusion that the necessary facts for a decision on such a conditional dismissal have not yet been clarified,” it was emphasized in a broadcast.
Krems is now for A new hearing at the end of April planned. An exact date was not given by Schuster for the time being.
Video: Fritzl should be in normal custody
The regional court will then decide again whether the 88-year-old will be released from prison on a conditional basis. Fritzl or his legal representation as well as the public prosecutor’s office can subsequently lodge a complaint with the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Vienna.
Amstetten incest case
The Amstetten incest case was Announced at the end of April 2008 become. Josef F. kept his daughter prisoner in a cellar dungeon for 24 years and fathered seven children with her – one died after birth.
Gallery: Fritzl’s house in Amstetten
In March 2009, the now 88-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment in St. Pölten, at the same time Accommodation in the prison system due to its dangerousness within the meaning of Section 21 Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code. Josef F. was found guilty of murder by omission, slave trading, deprivation of liberty, rape, incest and severe coercion and therefore on all charges.