Began the trial of the Austrian maniac.

SyuzhetyManyak Amshtettena16.03.2009Nachalsya from the trial of Joseph FrittslemV Austria on Monday, March 16, began the trial of Joseph Frittslem, which is accused of having over 24 years, kept in a cellar and raped his own daughter. Reported channel Sky News. The first meeting of the declared open to the presence there allowed journalists. Appeared in court accused person covers folder.
The trial of Frittslem will be held in the city of St. Peltier - the administrative center of the land of Lower Austria (there Amshtetten city, where the defendant lived and where he committed the alleged crime). Reported that the first meeting began with a pause, during which the court allowed the photographer and cameraman covering the face to remove the accused.
According to the court process should take no more than five days in which to hear the testimony of the victim - the daughter of Elizabeth Frittslya - and experts. It was expected that the verdict of the jury will be announced as early as Friday, March 20.
Specified that a large part of the process will take place in private.
73-year-old Joseph Frittsl was arrested in April 2008. He charged that for 24 years confined in the basement of his house and raped the daughter of Elizabeth it. During the confinement the woman gave birth to a father of seven children, one of whom died in infancy, are not receiving adequate medical care.
The circumstances of the disappearance of Elizabeth Frittsl who ran away from home in 1984, it turned out, after her elder daughter fell ill, 19-year-old Kerstin. Female life held in the basement, which has greatly affected her health: due to oxygen starvation, she fell into coma. Frittsl Josef took Kerstin to a hospital, and doctors, trying to put the patient diagnosis, initiated the search for her mother.
Currently Frittslyu charged with rape, incest, slavery, illegal imprisonment, child abuse and murder. It became known shortly before the court with the words of counsel the defendant, he is willing to admit his guilt on the first two counts.
Also, a few days before the first meeting to the press got information that Frittsl intends to accuse his daughter Elizabeth: she allegedly asked him to kidnap another girl, because one missed in the basement.
We know that Elizabeth herself Frittsl, now 43, does not appear in court - their testimony recorded on video. The woman and her children taken away to another part of the country where they are under police guard. According to some sources, at the time of the victim fled in a private psychiatric clinic, an effort to protect themselves from the attention of journalists.