Austrians wonder: ‘How could this be allowed to happen?’
The plight of Elisabeth Fritzl, who was held by her own father for 24 years in a windowless prison and bore him seven children, set a new standard for criminal depravity in postwar Austria, following the case of Natascha Kampusch who escaped in 2006 after being held for eight years.
While the Kampusch case was regarded as the crime of a twisted loner, Austrians are now faced with a case even more unfathomable.
