victor wrote:
From Times Online
March 21, 2009
Fritzl: there is a darker side to Austrian culture
I had been to Austria many times before. In 2006 I was sent there by The Times to investigate the case of Natascha Kampusch, the “girl in the cellar”, whose plight would bear many resemblances to that of Elisabeth Fritzl. In the course of that investigation we hit obstacle after obstacle. I listened to the police inspector in charge of the investigation give his views on the British Freedom of Information Act. The same things could never happen in Austria, he told me. The country prides itself on its privacy laws to such an extent that it can be impossible to find out even the author of a small ad in a paper.
“Natascha and I have become very good friends,” he announced, by which he meant that it was neither Ms Kampusch’s wish, nor in the interests of the police, that the details of her case be made public.
Since the case closed it has slowly emerged that Wolfgang Priklopil, Ms Kampusch’s abductor, was involved in paedophile rings and that the police botched the initial search by ignoring what turned out to be an accurate sighting of Natascha, aged 10, getting into Priklopil’s van. She also did not live underground for eight years, as was claimed. She spent much of her time above ground, even going on the occasional ski trip. Not much about the handling of the case makes sense.
The Kampusch story was regarded in Austria as unique. Less than two years later it emerged that Josef Fritzl had been keeping his daughter in a cellar. Far from examining the similarities, the authorities exaggerated the differences — “two one-offs”.
Source: Times Online UK.
March 21, 2009
Fritzl: there is a darker side to Austrian culture
I had been to Austria many times before. In 2006 I was sent there by The Times to investigate the case of Natascha Kampusch, the “girl in the cellar”, whose plight would bear many resemblances to that of Elisabeth Fritzl. In the course of that investigation we hit obstacle after obstacle. I listened to the police inspector in charge of the investigation give his views on the British Freedom of Information Act. The same things could never happen in Austria, he told me. The country prides itself on its privacy laws to such an extent that it can be impossible to find out even the author of a small ad in a paper.
“Natascha and I have become very good friends,” he announced, by which he meant that it was neither Ms Kampusch’s wish, nor in the interests of the police, that the details of her case be made public.
Since the case closed it has slowly emerged that Wolfgang Priklopil, Ms Kampusch’s abductor, was involved in paedophile rings and that the police botched the initial search by ignoring what turned out to be an accurate sighting of Natascha, aged 10, getting into Priklopil’s van. She also did not live underground for eight years, as was claimed. She spent much of her time above ground, even going on the occasional ski trip. Not much about the handling of the case makes sense.
The Kampusch story was regarded in Austria as unique. Less than two years later it emerged that Josef Fritzl had been keeping his daughter in a cellar. Far from examining the similarities, the authorities exaggerated the differences — “two one-offs”.
Source: Times Online UK.
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From The Times
April 17, 2008
Police 'held back sex-slave photos' found at Natascha Kampusch kidnap house
Portrait Natascha Kampusch, 1.3.2007
Michael Leidig
Photographs showing Natascha Kampusch being used as a sex slave by her kidnapper were hidden by Austrian police to avoid a political scandal, according to previously unreleased documents.
Ms Kampusch, who was kidnapped on her way to school when she was 10, was kept in a bunker beneath a house near Vienna by Wolfgang Priklopil for eight years before she escaped in August 2006. He committed suicide hours later.
Two months after her escape Stern, the respected German magazine, reported that police had found pictures that showed Ms Kampusch being sexually abused by friends of Priklopil, 44. The magazine said that she had been handcuffed and photographed for “cruel games”. The discovery of documents is the first recorded corroboration of the report by Stern. The documents, which were obtained by Heute, the Austrian daily newspaper, outline how Austrian police were told not to investigate further any leads or material seized from the home of Priklopil. They reveal that among the evidence, which police were ordered to destroy or hide, were photographs on two mini-DVDs that would have linked others with the abuse of Ms Kampusch.
Investigators were not allowed to view the pictures and consider charges against other people because senior politicians did not want a scandal before a general election, according to the documents. The paperwork shows that Herwig Haidinger, then the chief of the Austrian criminal police, complained in an e-mail to the Interior Ministry that another senior police officer, Major-General Nikolaus Koch, had ordered the destruction of the evidence.
After Ms Kampusch escaped it was discovered that police had made mistakes during the search for her, including ignoring a statement from a police dog handler. The statement, which included the address of Priklopil and a description of his character, was made on April 14, 1998, less than six weeks after Ms Kampusch was abducted. It was sent to the investigating officer but was apparently lost.
Mr Haidinger said that when he found the statement after Ms Kampusch escaped he wanted the dog handler to be questioned, but confirmed that he received direct instructions from the Interior Ministry not to proceed. “We don't need a police scandal prior to the parliamentary elections,” Mr Haidinger quoted officials from the ministry as saying.
Günther Platter, the conservative Interior Minister who came to power after the elections, called the claims “rumours and allegations”.
Source: Times Online UK.
April 17, 2008
Police 'held back sex-slave photos' found at Natascha Kampusch kidnap house
Portrait Natascha Kampusch, 1.3.2007
Michael Leidig
Photographs showing Natascha Kampusch being used as a sex slave by her kidnapper were hidden by Austrian police to avoid a political scandal, according to previously unreleased documents.
Ms Kampusch, who was kidnapped on her way to school when she was 10, was kept in a bunker beneath a house near Vienna by Wolfgang Priklopil for eight years before she escaped in August 2006. He committed suicide hours later.
Two months after her escape Stern, the respected German magazine, reported that police had found pictures that showed Ms Kampusch being sexually abused by friends of Priklopil, 44. The magazine said that she had been handcuffed and photographed for “cruel games”. The discovery of documents is the first recorded corroboration of the report by Stern. The documents, which were obtained by Heute, the Austrian daily newspaper, outline how Austrian police were told not to investigate further any leads or material seized from the home of Priklopil. They reveal that among the evidence, which police were ordered to destroy or hide, were photographs on two mini-DVDs that would have linked others with the abuse of Ms Kampusch.
Investigators were not allowed to view the pictures and consider charges against other people because senior politicians did not want a scandal before a general election, according to the documents. The paperwork shows that Herwig Haidinger, then the chief of the Austrian criminal police, complained in an e-mail to the Interior Ministry that another senior police officer, Major-General Nikolaus Koch, had ordered the destruction of the evidence.
After Ms Kampusch escaped it was discovered that police had made mistakes during the search for her, including ignoring a statement from a police dog handler. The statement, which included the address of Priklopil and a description of his character, was made on April 14, 1998, less than six weeks after Ms Kampusch was abducted. It was sent to the investigating officer but was apparently lost.
Mr Haidinger said that when he found the statement after Ms Kampusch escaped he wanted the dog handler to be questioned, but confirmed that he received direct instructions from the Interior Ministry not to proceed. “We don't need a police scandal prior to the parliamentary elections,” Mr Haidinger quoted officials from the ministry as saying.
Günther Platter, the conservative Interior Minister who came to power after the elections, called the claims “rumours and allegations”.
Source: Times Online UK.
Kampusch cop killed by VIP paedo gang, says brother
14 October 2010
by Marija Andric
Natascha Kampusch
The top cop who died with a bullet in his head after he investigated the kidnap of Austrian cellar girl Natascha Kampusch was murdered by a VIP paedophile ring, his brother has claimed.
Investigator Franz Kroell, 59, was the original head of the inquiry into the disappearance of Kampusch when she was snatched aged 10 on her way to school by a paedophile who kept her prisoner for more then eight years. He died last July with what was thought to be a single shot from his service revolver as a new inquiry into the kidnap revealed a series of blunders.
But now his brother Karl has told Austrian newspaper Die Aktuelle the detective was assassinated to protect a high-ranking ring of VIP paedophiles he was about to unmask. "There was no investigation into his death at all. When I told a policeman that my brother had by no means to commit suicide he just laughed at me," said Karl. The detective died after an official re-investigation of the kidnap ended and he was about to be demoted to a street cop in a country police department. But, his brother says, he continued to investigate the Kampusch case on his own. "Somebody must have gotten wind of it. A few weeks later Franz was dead," said Karl.
And he poured scorn on the official version that his brother killed himself. "Nobody was able to explain to me why nobody heard the shot on a late July evening when almost everybody was sleeping with open windows? Was it impossible to hear the shot because a silencer was used?" said Karl.
Kampusch was kept prisoner for more than eight years until she managed to escape her captor, pervert Wolfgang Priklopil who committed suicide before he could be quizzed. The case has been dogged by persistent rumours that Priklopil was part of a paedophile gang which had snatched the schoolgirl to order. In one conversation a few weeks before his death, Franz told his brother: "Karl, if something happens to me, you have to carry on where I left off. It's getting more and more dangerous, I have to reckon with the worst. These people have no scruples at all."
When his brother asked who he meant, the veteran cop said: "Those who want to prevent the Kampusch case being solved by any means. Those up to their necks in the child sex scene. Like one politician from Lower Austria, an official from the Ministry of Interior, a judge, colleagues of mine from Vienna, and so on. This is the tip of the iceberg. Once I found a noose hanging on my door, remember? I have to investigate influential and powerful people and I'm on my own standing in front of a giant stinking bubble of lies, abominations, sex and blackmail. If I burst that bubble, there will be a quake in Austria. But they will know how to prevent that just like they prevented all kinds of results in the Kampusch case during the last years. I know I'm even watched in my own office," added the detective.
The cop kept all his secrets out of his police files and stored them on a laptop and a USB memory stick - but both were confiscated from Karl shortly after his brother's death. "My brother was close to solving the Kampusch case and he was on the right people's heels. He had to die because he knew too much. Now I'm afraid too," admitted Karl.
Source: Croatian Times.
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