What's WITH those Austrians and their cellars ?
Excerpt from the Mail on Sunday:
Shocked Austrians ask 'what's wrong with our country?'
as they learn the full horror of their third 'girl-in-a-cellar' scandal in two years
As Austrians woke this morning to the news that Josef Fritzl had confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, the country's newspapers struggled to comprehend the crime.
It is the third "girl-in-a-cellar" scandal to hit the country in just under three years.
Austria's trouble started in 2006 when teenager Natascha Kampusch escaped from a dungeon where she had been kept by Wolfgang Priklopil for eight years.
Then in 2007, there were three girls held captive in almost complete darkness for seven years by their own mother in a house in Austria's third city, Linz.
"After this latest case it will be impossible to carry on with business as usual," writes Petra Stuiber in Austria's Der Standard daily.
"An entire nation must ask itself what is going fundamentally wrong."
Shocked Austrians ask 'what's wrong with our country?'
as they learn the full horror of their third 'girl-in-a-cellar' scandal in two years
As Austrians woke this morning to the news that Josef Fritzl had confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, the country's newspapers struggled to comprehend the crime.
It is the third "girl-in-a-cellar" scandal to hit the country in just under three years.
Austria's trouble started in 2006 when teenager Natascha Kampusch escaped from a dungeon where she had been kept by Wolfgang Priklopil for eight years.
Then in 2007, there were three girls held captive in almost complete darkness for seven years by their own mother in a house in Austria's third city, Linz.
"After this latest case it will be impossible to carry on with business as usual," writes Petra Stuiber in Austria's Der Standard daily.
"An entire nation must ask itself what is going fundamentally wrong."