Josef Fritzl to be moved to a regular prison, says his lawyer

The infamous Austrian imprisoned and raped his daughter for more than two decades, fathering seven children.

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00:00 An Austrian court has ruled that Joseph Fritzl, who raped his captive daughter over a period of 24 years,

00:07 can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison.

00:11 The 88-year-old will have to attend regular psychotherapy over a 10-year probation period.

00:16 A request to release him from detention was rejected, but it's still a win for Fritzl's legal team,

00:21 as conditions in a regular prison are considered an improvement.

00:25 He was a bit close to tears, he said again that what he did was terrible.

00:34 And that these people are really suffering and that he would prefer to do it without shame.

00:41 He said before that he would rather give his life for him to do it without shame.

00:48 But he can't do it without shame.

00:50 But he really deals with this topic day and night. He really has the files in front of him.

00:56 Fritzl became known as the "Monster of Amsterdam" after the North Austrian town

01:01 where he in 1984 locked up his then 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth.

01:06 His crimes were revealed in 2008 and a year later he was sentenced to life imprisonment

01:11 for committing incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement

01:15 and negligent homicide of one of his seven infant sons.

01:20 (whooshing)