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7-year-old daughter, wife, mother, father, and father-in-law. They had to die because their murderer lost money on the stock exchange market.
Only his sister and his brother survived. He was not interested to finish their lifes.

The murderer was working in the Austrian parliament for the Socialdemocrats. His wife was working in the ministry of finance. It […]

Austrias daily newspaper “DerStandard” writes something about the German historican Paul Nolte from the university in Berlin.
Nolte thinks that Austrias next government will be a coalition between the Peoples Party and the Greens.

Bad luck for the Socialdemocrats? The historican explains that the same trend is noticeable in Germany. Nolte thinks the Green voters in Germany […]

As the Football Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland is coming closer and closer, a drastic increase of Austrian flags on the streets is discoverable.
Such a patriotic development was a thorn in the flesh of some politicans and lawyers.

They have warned enthusiastic Austrians through the medias, that it’s not allowed to show the Austrian flag […]

Yesterday local politicans of Graz were discussing if it should be legal to use mobile phones in public transports in their provincial capital of Styria.
The answer was unmistakable and crystal clear. It is a crime, and it’s going to be prohibited.

The prime mover of the “mobile phone prohibition” is Graz mayor Siegfried Nagl from the […]

Austrian midwifes criticize the high amount of Caesarean operations.
Every fourth baby in Austria is born that way.

The federal state of Burgenland in the leader of Caesarean operations. The midwifes in Austria are not happy with such a development.
“Soon every second baby is born by Caesarean operation”, moans a speaker of the midwifes.
The expert explains: “Many […]

If you want to spend a silent and peaceful holiday, you should not choose a youth hostel for your accommodation.
Such a wise understanding was totally ignored by an 24-year-old tourist from Australia in Vienna.

The young man was not able to bear the noise of a whole school class, which also found a place in the […]

If all those horrible things, which recently happened in Austria, have something positive, it’s a political discussion about a harder punishment for child abusers and sex offenders.
Now also Freedom Party chairman Heinz Christian Strache promised to fight for a harder punishment for sex maniacs. Strache demands: “No freedom for child abusers!”

Child abusers and sex offenders […]

Another strange court decision in context to child abuse is reported in todays Austrian newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”.
A 55-year-old man was sentenced to a prison term of 10 months for raping a 4-year-old girl several times. Even employees of the court house were shaking their heads after such a decision. As the man already spent 10 […]

In todays “Pressestunde”, a TV-show with a politican and two journalists, shown every Sunday morning on Austrian TV, the BZÖ politican of the “orange party” Peter Westenthaler, was talking about the Austrian law in relation to the incest crime of Amstetten.
He said that there is something wrong with the law in Austria. There must be […]

Austrias newspaper “Ober- österreichische Nachrichten” wrote about the childhood of Josef Fritzl in todays issue.
The second world war was over when he was 10 years old. His home town Amstetten was totally destroyed by Allied bombers, and occupied by the Russian army.

Fritzl grew up in very poor conditions, and lived alone with his mother. His […]

There is a story about the new life of Josef Fritzl in todays issue of Austrias biggest newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”.
Being in prison is not a new experience to him. At the end of the 60’s he was in prison for 18 months, because of several sexual attacks and rapes. Fritzl was also known as exhibitionist.

But […]

The first rumours about the sex crimes of Josef Fritzl in the 60’s are true.
He has raped a nurse in 1967. He entered the apartment of the nurse through a window, and sexually abused her. Now another women claims that she was also raped by the monster of Amstetten in those years, but she was […]

Austrias justice minister Maria Berger is against a hard punishment for Josef Fritzl.
“15 years are enough. 20 years the maximum”, she says.

Austrias Interior Minister Günther Platter from the Peoples Party claimed a hard punishment for sex offenders. The Socialdemocratic justice minister disagrees.
The justice minister also criticizes the behaviour of Lower Austrias minister president Erwin Pröll […]

According to Austrias biggest newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, the 5-year-old son of Josef Fritzl Felix, was very excited about his first time in a car when he was released from his prison in the cellar, and brought to his new home with the other family members.
For you and me it’s nothing special to go to work […]

According to Austrias biggest daily newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, Josef Fritzl has already raped a woman before he started to lock up his daughter and do the same to her.
It’s written that he has raped a woman in the city of Linz.

Fritzl was caught, brought before the court, and found guilty. But he was not thrown […]

The story about Josef Fritzl and his family breaks all records at austrianews.co.uk.
Yesterday 6.397 people were visiting the website, and 10.985 impressions were counted.

Ranking of the top three days at austrianews.co.uk:
1st … 29th April 2008: 6.397 visits/10.985 impressions
2nd … 28th April 2008: 4.245 visits/6.772 impressions
3rd … 12th October: 2.257 visits/3.602 impressions
Most of the visitors come […]

Since last Sunday, the whole world knows his name.
The man who locked up his own daughter in the cellar for 24 years, raped, and made her pregnant 6 times.

But who is that man who can do such cruel things to his own daughter?
The 73-year-old has also seven children with his wife, and is known as […]

According to the latest news of Austrias newspapers and medias in the scandal of Amstetten, the police knew about the dungeon in the cellar.
The suspect has already received an official planning permission for this kind of cellar in the 70’s. So the authorities knew about the whole cellar. There were no secret rooms.

The planning permission […]

Yesterday the accused incest committer Josef Fritzl was talking to the police for the first time.
He admited the rapings of his daughter during the last 24 years in the cellar. One of the seven babies which were born below ground level, died during the birth. Fritzl has thrown the dead baby into the burning heating […]

The horrible dungeon affair in Lower Austria, brought a new record of visitors to austrianews.co.uk.
4.245 visitors and 6.772 impressions were counted yesterday, on Monday the 28th April 2008, at austrianews.co.uk. Most of the visitors came through Google, searching for “austria news”, “austrian news”, “news in austria”, and “austria newspaper”.

The background of the visitors are countries […]

New details appeared in the unbelievable dungeon incest affair of Lower Austria.
The victim, who was raped by her father the first time when she was 11 years old, tried to escape two times from her home.

The second time was in August 1984, and this was one time too much for her father. He decided to […]

Inconceivable case of incest in Austria!
A man from the Lower Austrian town of Amstetten locked up his daughter for 24 years in a cellar, and fathered her seven times.

The martyrdom started when she was 11 years old. She was raped, made pregnant, and locked up in the cellar by her own father. Officially she was […]

The police of Vienna is upset about dirty windows in their offices.
Now they have found the right idea to solve the problem. Prisoners should care about clean windows on their police stations.

The policemen are quite enthusiastic about their idea. They could save time and money, and the prisoners won’t be bored. “Sweating instead of sitting”, […]

Was Wolfgang Prikopil the only involved committer in the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch?
The official version of the story says “yes”, but now more and more doubts appear that Priklopil was not the only one.

Even the chief of the new “Kampusch commission” voices doubts that Wolfgang Priklopil was able to do everything alone.
In an interview in […]

A woman from Salzburg gave her neighbour a box of chocolate.
Today she has to appear before a court, because the public prosecution department of Salzburg thinks giving a special type of chocolate fulfils the criminal offence of an harmful threat.

According to Austrian medias the woman has to expect one year prison.
Two months ago a mayor […]

A prostitute from China has killed her Chinese workmate.
The reason can be found in the commercial competition. The 47-year-old lady of pleasure from China made too much business. The other one was not happy about that, because she was not able to earn the same.

First the police and some newspapers suspected a participation of the […]

A new survey has revealed that Austrians don’t like to think positive.
52 percent of all Austrians say their life is predetermined by their personal destiny. Only 21 percent have the opion the destiny could be a chance to turn things into a better situation.

42 percent of the Austrians answered the question “Is positive thinking the […]