Fritzl Family - New Identities

Josef Fritzl's entire family to get new identities

By Andreas Sam and Caroline Gammell

Last Updated: 9:53PM BST 29/05/2008

Every member of Josef Fritzl's family will be given a new identity by the Austrian authorities.

His daughter Elisabeth, who was held captive in a secret cellar for 24 years and bore her father six children, her six adult siblings and mother Rosemarie will all receive new papers.

The new identities are being arranged by Amstetten city council after the family decided not to talk to the media or give interviews about their prolonged ordeal.

Their lawyer Christoph Herbst said: "There have been many offers for interviews but the decision not to go public is final.

"The doctors treating the family are adamant that they need to rest, recover and go on with their therapy rather than be exposed in the public."

Following a series of violent incidents involving reporters and photographers trying to get to the family, hospital authorities have complained that the Fritzls have been "imprisoned for the second time" as they are not allowed to leave the clinic due to the presence of the international press.

Elisabeth Fritzl's six adult siblings, aged 37 to 50, have also been pressured by international media and are understood to be considering a change of identity to avoid public scrutiny.




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