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'Ghoulish Tourism' Develops in Amstetten

Posted May 13, 08 5:06 PM CDT in World,  Crime & Courts    Most Popular

(Newser) – Tourists are flocking to Amstetten, Austria, and snapping pictures at the site where Josef Fritzl kept his daughter imprisoned as a sex slave for 23 years, the Telegraph reports. "It is bad enough that journalists and TV crews have beleaguered our town, but now there is this ghoulish tourism," complains one resident.

"People are coming especially to have their picture taken in front of the house. It has become a sort of pilgrimage site," says one of the police officers tasked with guarding the three-story house. Before news broke of Fritzl's atrocities, the small town of Amstetten was known mainly for the production of apple wine.

Source Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Members of a forensic team arrive with a sniffer dog at the house of Josef Fritzl in Amstetten, Austria, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Residents from Amstetten hold rolls of paper with their comments and thoughts in support of a family who became victims of incest and abuse in the main square in Amstetten, Wednesday May 7, 2008.   (AP Photo)
A sign reading "Why" is seen in front of the house in Amstetten, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24-years in a windowless basement cell.   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
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