New excitement

Josef Fritzl is now to be “incapacitated”

Due to his progressive dementia, the father of horror of Amstetten is already considered harmless. And now - according to a psychiatric report - as "completely incapable of acting". The judiciary therefore wants to have the 89-year-old placed under guardianship. With serious consequences for him.

Josef Fritzl's wish to be freed was almost within reach - after a senate of judges decided in mid-May to transfer him from a detention center to a normal prison.