Josef Fritzl’s lawyer has posted bizarre topless photos from her mountain holiday following the latest bid to have the incest monster transferred from a maximum security prison.
Astrid Wagner, 60, shared several photos from her hiking vacation in Austria, showing her leaning against a fountain and a fence while wearing nothing but her hiking pants.
The eccentric lawyer posted similar photos in 2015, 2017 and 2020 due to “high demand” but said she “really (doesn’t) want to provoke anyone” with her revealing photos after previously being reported to the Austrian bar for topless shots.
Wagner’s most prominent client is 88-year-old Fritzl, who has been imprisoned since 2009 after holding his daughter Elisabeth captive in his basement in the Austrian city of Amstetten for 24 years, raping her thousands of times and fathering her children.
The Austrian lawyer is trying to get Fritzl released from the high-security psychiatric prison he is currently being held in, claiming he is no longer dangerous, but her latest bid has been unsuccessful.
Astrid Wagner, 60, shared several photos from her hiking vacation in Austria, showing her leaning against a fountain and a fence wearing nothing but her hiking pants
The Austrian lawyer is trying to get Fritzl released from the high-security psychiatric prison he is currently being held in, claiming he is no longer dangerous – but her latest bid has been unsuccessful.
Josef Fritzl is seen during day four of his trial at the St. Poelten Land Court in 2009
The eccentric lawyer posted similar photos in 2015, 2017 and 2020 due to “high demand” but said she “really (doesn’t) want to provoke anyone” with her revealing photos after previously being reported to the Austrian bar for topless shots
A court in the town of Krems an der Donau had ordered in January that Fritzl be transferred from a psychiatric ward to a regular prison after being told he was “no longer in danger of reoffending”, but the decision has since been reversed.
Wagner helped Fritzl write the book ‘The Abyss of Josef F’, in which the incest monster described how he came up with the idea to keep his then 18-year-old daughter captive and the lengths he went to to explain her disappearance.
Shockingly, she said of Fritzl, “He’s not an animal.”
His daughter Elisabeth, who is now 56 and has been given a new identity, previously said she hopes her evil father will be punished “until death” for his crimes.
Fritzl’s trial heard how he raped her 3,000 times in the rat-infested basement and how he hit and kicked her and eventually had seven children with her.
The mother lived downstairs in the flat with her children: Kerstin born in 1988, Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002).
Meanwhile, Lisa (1992), Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) grew up on the top floor of the house Fritzl shared with his wife Rosemarie in sleepy Amstetten in central Austria, 78 kilometers from Linz.
Another son, named Michel, tragically died shortly after birth from neglect.
During the trial against her father, Elisabeth said through her lawyer Eva Plaz that she hopes he is never released.
“She wants the defendant to be held responsible until death,” Ms. Plaz said.
Earlier, the lawyer had told the court: ‘The suspect has made himself the master of life and death. He must be punished for this.’
Josef Fritzl was released on parole from a prison for the mentally ill by an Austrian court in January, shortly after he was photographed outside prison for the first time in 15 years
Elisabeth Fritzl (pictured as a schoolgirl), now 56, was held captive by her father Josef in the basement of the family’s Austrian home from 1984 to 2008
Fritzl, 88, is being held in Sankt Poelten prison and is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
Elisabeth lived with her children in this filthy, cramped basement for 24 years
Josef Fritzl during a four-week vacation in Pataya, Thailand, from January 1, 1998 to February 3, 1998
Fritzl, who has now changed his name to one that has not been made public, has been in prison since his conviction in 2009 for incest, rape, slavery, coercion and murder due to neglect of his newborn son.
MailOnline reported that Elisabeth has built a new life with her bodyguard husband in an isolated house on the river, just half an hour from the dungeon where she was held captive for 24 years, while living opposite her eldest daughter Kerstin.
This comes after Fritzl wrote an apology letter earlier this year in which he claims to be a ‘good father’.
‘I deeply regret all my actions. Kind regards, Fritzl,” the incestuous rapist wrote.
“I was actually a good father,” he claimed, saying that he saved money for the “children’s education,” visited them often, helped with chores and even let them learn instruments “and so on.”