Fritzl speaks of sudden realisation of his crimes in first post-trial interview
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/5060265/Fritzl-speaks-of-sudden-realisation-of-his-crimes-in-first-post-trial-interview.html Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who held his daughter in a secret dungeon for 24 years, has described how his fantasy world collapsed in a first interview from his prison cell. By Allan Hall in Berlin Last Updated: 12:30PM GMT 27 Mar 2009 Josef Fritzl trial: Loophole means Fritzl could be released in Josef Fritzl is being sent to a psychiatric unit for people with an abnormality of the mind Photo: GETTY An Austrian magazine, News, published an interview Fritzl gave to his lawyer one week after the 73-year old was sentenced to life in prison. It was only when he was confronted by his daughter's testimony in open court that Fritzl realised the magnitude of the harm he had inflicted on daughter Elisabeth and the seven children he had fathered in an incestuous relationship. 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"After that, I want only the hardest punishment. Until the end. "As I noticed that she was here, in the court room, and I finally turned, into the auditorium and looked and saw her myself, I was suddenly so ashamed." "I could hardly bear hearing what she was saying," said Fritzl who, until that moment, had denied murder and slavery charges. "I wanted the hardest punishment." Fritzl, who changed his pleas at his trial last week to guilty on all counts including raping Elisabeth 3,000 times and the murder of a newborn who died in his dungeon, again tried to justify his perverse "love" for his secret family. "I tried to make life in the cellar as pleasant as possible for my second family - and in the course of the years, a partnership between my daughter and myself," he said. "But I deserved nothing better. I do not deserve indulgence. I knew I had to confess everything, I could not varnish over the truth any longer, before anyone." The following day he entered court and changed his pleas to guilty on all charges. "I understood, finally, what suffering I brought to my family." Although under suicide watch, he said he was not contemplating killing himself. "I would like to write a sympathetic book," he says. "Not for the public, only for her. I will try to explain why I acted in such a horrible way. "I wish nothing more than that my victims can somehow forget me and what they experienced from me." He said he wanted psychiatrists to delve into his "sick soul" to use the findings for the rehabiliation of his cellar family. Meanwhile a German lawyer, Klaus Ulrich Groth served summons on Rosemarie Fritzl, his wife, and his eldest son Harald, claiming they knew of the secret dungeon. "Every housewife, charwoman or curious child would someday find a hidden entrance to a cellar sooner or later, by accident or purposeful curiosity," he said. "Who supplied the cellar in the weeks when Fritzl was on holiday in Thailand?" 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