Fritzl ‘was a regular at brothel and prostitutes feared him’ By ALLAN HALL
A FORMER brothel barman has revealed how the father in the cellar incest case, Josef Fritzl, was a regular customer who instilled fear in his club’s working girls because of his dominant and violent tendencies.
Christoph Flugel worked for six years as a waiter and barman at the bordello Villa Ostende in Linz, 40 miles from Amstetten where Fritzl, 73, built the underground lair in which he raped his daughter over 24 years.
“He was a regular,” said Mr Flugel. “On the first look, there was nothing wrong with him. He was neatly dressed and courteous. But as soon as one of the girls he wanted to go upstairs approached him, his mood changed.”
He said that in conversations at the bar, he was a man who was clearly more into dominance than the pleasure of sex itself – and therefore was feared when he did go to the first floor where the girls had their room.
He went on: “Ninety-five per cent of customers are totally normal; 3 per cent are a bit weird. Fritzl belongs to the remaining 2 per cent that are definitely mentally ill.
“None of the girls wanted to spend time in a room with him. Two of them even strictly refused to and did without the earnings.”
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Meanwhile, the enormity of his crime is weighing heavily on Fritzl.
His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said that, after he was first arrested, Fritzl watched television and ate meals with other convicts at his remand prison. Now he refuses to leave his cell for fear of being attacked by fellow prisoners, who traditionally loathe child-sex criminals.
Well, well. Isn’t that a pity?
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