Prosecutors appeal against decision to move Josef Fritzl to ordinary prison

Josef Fritzl kept his daughter captive for 24 years (Robert Jaeger/Pool/AP)

Austrian prosecutors have appealed against a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to an ordinary prison.

Ferdinand Schuster, spokesman for the state court in Krems, on Thursday confirmed a report by broadcaster ORF that prosecutors have challenged last week’s ruling in the case of Josef Fritzl, and that a court in Vienna will now have to decide, the Austria Press Agency said.