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Austrian Girl Electrocuted While Trying To Twitter

“Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.” Link


Austrian Incest Freak Josef Fritzl Tried To Sell Story To Brit Tabloids

Josef Fritzl
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“Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl tried to make money from his crimes by selling his police interrogation transcripts to British tabloid newspapers, a German magazine reports. Fritzl, 73, stands accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter, Elisabeth Fritzl, for 24 years in a basement dungeon. He is also charged with murder, as one of the seven children his daughter bore in the dungeon beneath his house died shortly after birth.” [Link]


Austrian Psycho Joseph Fritzl Says He Was "Born To Rape"

“The report by psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner says Joseph Fritzl’s mother humiliated him in childhood, creating his need to ‘possess a human being’. Mr Fritzl said he had an ‘evil streak’ and that he ‘could have behaved a lot worse than locking up my daughter’.” [Link]


Right Wing Parties Gain Power In Austria

“A total of 183 parliamentary seats were up for grabs. If preliminary results are confirmed, the right-wing Freedom Party will have 35 seats, up from 21 after the last elections in 2006. The Alliance for the Future of Austria, led by Joerg Haider, will have 21, up from seven. The center-left Social Democrats and the conservative People’s Party, which formed the governing alliance that collapsed in July, both made their worst showing since the end of World War II.” [Link]