Fritzl Watch: Austrian Nazis, Fritz, Puns And Nuclear War
FRITZL Watch: Anorak’s look at Josef Fritzl, Elisabeth Fritzl and assorted Frtizls in the news
THE SUN (front page): “AS HIS CHILDREN COWERED IN DARKNESS, HE WAS THE.. Beast beside the seaside”
Not easy to find humour in incest and rape, but the Sun makes a decent stab of it, using a pun to accompany a shot of Josef Fritzl in his “tight-fitting trunks” on a boys’ trip to Thailand.
There’s another picture of Josef Fritzl on a deckchair in Cyprus. “Wish you were here?” comes the headline pun.
“Monster’s 6yrs on sex-hell pit”
TWISTED Josef Fritzl spent SIX years building his monstrous sex dungeon for “favourite daughter” Elisabeth, investigators revealed yesterday. It is believed that the 73-year-old hatched the plan to trap Elisabeth “forever” only months after he started to abuse her at the age of just 11. Council chiefs in Amstetten TWICE granted Fritzl planning permission for his den – after he told them he needed a “Cold War bunker” to protect his family in case Austria was hit by a nuclear bomb.
DAILY MAIL: “A nation in haunting denial”
Says Allison Pearson: “The case makes you wonder what darkness lies in the basement of the Austrian imagination.”
Not sure. Maybe she should ask Rosemary West’s children?
DAILY EXPRESS: “A COUNTRY IN CRISIS”
“Still scarred by the war, Hitler and Nazism, the terrible stories of kidnap and abuse may now force Austrians finally to ask the question they’ve feared for so long – are we a damaged people?”
The war. What war? Fritz?
“Three-quarters of the commandants of Nazi concentration camps were of Austrian origin, while the country supplied 80 per cent of the staff to Adolph Eichmann, who organised the Holocaust.”
Holocaust? Vot Holocaust?
DER SPEIGEL: “Austria Faces another Tortured Debate”
A pun. A German pun!
DAILY STAR: “DAD STOCKED UP DUNGEON AS HE WENT FOR CHILD SEX IN THAILAND”
There is no evident of Josef Fritzl having sex in Thailand with anyone, let lone young children in “seedy fleshpots”. But the Star makes a guess that this is what he was up to, and given his track recordFritzl is less than likely to win a case for libel.
THE MIRROR (front page): “CELLAR MUM: I’M SORRY”
Rosemarie Fritzl tells Elisabeth Fritzl: “I’m sorry – I had no idea.”
“Best dad takes his holiday on Thai sex beach”
A picture of Josef Fritzl on holiday in Pattaya, although the Sun says the picture of him on the deckchair was taken in Cyprus
Fritzl – not Fritz…
Posted: 30th, April 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (31) | TrackBack | Permalink
