Evil Josef Fritzl could be FREED from jail & back on streets this year as monster thinks he’ll be met by cheering crowds
EVIL Josef Fritzl could be freed from jail this year and believes he will be met with people "cheering and wanting to shake his hand," his lawyers have revealed.
Fritzl, 89, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up as his sex slave for 24 years.
The Austrian fiend, who fathered seven kids with her, was moved from a high-security psychiatric unit to a normal prison earlier this year.
Now his lawyers have revealed they will submit a parole application in weeks - and are confident he will be released having served a mere 15 years for his heinous crimes.
Fritzl's lawyer Astrid Wagner told the Mirror: "We will start an action in March and call for parole and if the court rejects it we will appeal and given his condition I believe he will be released by next year.
"He wants to live close to where he previously did and he wants to live alone but I think that is very unlikely given his age and condition.
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"He would need a carer and none of his friends or family want to know."
Fritzl began molesting Elisabeth when she was 11, before imprisoning her in a filthy cellar in Amstetten near Vienna in 1984.
Three of the children he fathered lived with his daughter in windowless, soundproofed rooms behind a reinforced concrete door, three were raised upstairs in the house, and one died shortly after birth.
Fritzl is said to have burned the tragic baby’s body in an incinerator and scattered the ashes in the garden.
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His crimes came to light in 2008 when the eldest of the children, Kerstin, became seriously ill and had to be taken to hospital.
The twisted monster was jailed the following year, aged 73, for rape, incest, enslavement, false imprisonment, and murder by negligence.
It was also astonishingly revealed that Fritzl believes he would receive a great "fanfare" on his release.
Lawyer Wagner explained: "He believes that when he is released, he will come out to a big celebration with people cheering and music and wanting to shake his hand.
"This is obviously not the case. It is a fantasy. I don't think he fully understands what the world really thinks. Every time I see him, he says he regrets his decisions every day.
"He has ruined his life. He always talks about his regrets about his crimes. He thinks he has friends on the outside, but he hasn’t.
"One thing he accepts is that his family no longer want to see him and respects that."
Psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner has come to the conclusion that Fritzl is no longer a danger to the public.
Three judges decided to move the monster from his high security unit, thought to be the toughest in Austria's penal system, to a normal cell.
This was initially on another wing at the same prison which is 50 miles north west of Austria's capital, Vienna.
Wagner said that Fritzl "likes the new prison" and "being around young people" who choose not to interact with him.
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She even said that the deranged criminal believes that TV crews have visited him in his cell - but the lawyer tells him it's impossible "because he's not had a visit from anyone apart from me".
Wagner added: "He's in very good physical shape. He will live until he is 100 I think but mentally he is showing his age."
Josef Fritzl's crimes
THE twisted dad asks his daughter Elisabeth to help him install a door in his cellar in 1984.
She agreed and moments later she is drugged with an ether-soaked towel, tied up and chained to a bed.
She would spend the next 24 years locked up in the hellish prison in Amstetten.
Evil Fritzl went on to rape her over 3,000 times in rat-infested bunker.
He would beat and kick her and force her into degrading acts - including re-enacting scenes from violent porn films.
Elisabeth gave birth to seven babies in the cellar with no medical care.
Kerstin, born 1988, Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002) were left to live with their mum in the underground hellhole.
But Lisa, (born 1992) Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) - were raised upstairs, by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie after he convinced her they were left on the doorstep by Elisabeth.
Alexander's twin Michael died shortly after birth with cruel Fritzl tossing his body in an incinerator.
The family's nightmare sees Fritzl threatening them if they dare to escape and punishing them by switching off the electricity.
Their nightmare comes to an end when Kerstin fell critically ill in 2008.
Fritzl allowed Elisabeth to take her to the hospital where she revealed the shocking horrors she had suffered.
Despite trying to argue he was trying to be a protective father, Fritzl was sentenced to life in prison in 2009.
