Josef Fritzl's cellar lacked oxygen
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- Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Josef Fritzl's cellar lacked oxygen
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
The Telegraph
Last Updated: 6:56PM BST 10/05/2008
A chronic shortage of oxygen in the cellar Josef Fritzl built for his
daughter and their children made them so listless that for most of the
time they could only sit or lie down, police have revealed.
Investigators said they had established that the windowless bunker
built by Josef Fritzl was hermetically sealed by a remote controlled
door weighing half a ton and had only one ventilation shaft to provide
the warren of underground rooms with air.
"There is so little oxygen that that the victims would have had to
spend nearly all their time lying or sitting down," one officer said.
They said that the atmosphere underground was so lacking in oxygen
that if any more than four officers were admitted to the bunker at one
time, they had great difficulty breathing.
The new details emerged as a team of police officers searched the
underground bunker where Fritzl, 73, held his daughter prisoner for 24
years and fathered her seven children.
Police said the cellar was damp and covered in mildew and that as a
result its inhabitants were now suffering from fungal infections.
They said Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, and her children appear to have
survived entirely on deep frozen foods Fritzl bought at distant
supermarkets to avoid detection and that they are unlikely to have
eaten fresh vegetables.
New details about the health of Fritzl’s cellar victims revealed that
Elisabeth’s Frtizl’s 18-year-old son Stefan, who is under medical and
psychiatric care, is suffering from serious motor neurone problems and
that he has difficulty in moving as a result.
Doctors did not say whether his illness was directly linked to his
captivity.
Police have said that Stefan is likely to be a key witness in Fritzl’s
trial and could determine whether murder charges are brought against
him.
Frtizl has admitted that one of the seven children he fathered in the
cellar died shortly after his was born in 1996. The new born baby,
named Michael, was the twin brother of Alexander who is now 12.
Fritzl has admitted dumping the dead baby’s corpse in his heating
furnace to "get rid of it".
State prosecutors have said that if evidence shows that Fritzl knew
the child was seriously ill but still failed to summon help, he would
almost certainly face murder charges.
Stefan would have been six at the time and would have witnessed his
brother dying.
His 19-year-old sister Kerstin, who also spent her entire life
underground is suffering from a form of epilepsy which is believed to
be a hereditary condition linked to her parent’s incest.
She is currently in a coma which had been medically induced.
Kerstin’s condition, which worsened dramatically underground, led her
to suffer from screaming fits.
Her illness eventually convinced Fritzl that he had to take his
daughter to hospital or face the prospect of her dying.
Kerstin was delivered to hospital on April 19. Doctors then called the
police.
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