Evil Josef Fritzl could be FREED from jail & back on streets this year as monster thinks he’ll be met by cheering crowds

EVIL Josef Fritzl could be freed from jail this year and believes he will be met with people “cheering and wanting to shake his hand,” his lawyers have revealed.

Fritzl, 89, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up as his sex slave for 24 years.

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Fritzl was arrested on April 26, 2008[/caption]

Monster Josef Fritzl has been moved out of his maxiumum psychiatric unit to a “nice and spacious” jail cell

The Austrian fiend, who fathered seven kids with her, was moved from a high-security psychiatric unit to a normal prison earlier this year.

Now his lawyers have revealed they will submit a parole application in weeks – and are confident he will be released having served a mere 15 years for his heinous crimes.

Fritzl’s lawyer Astrid Wagner told the Mirror: “We will start an action in March and call for parole and if the court rejects it we will appeal and given his condition I believe he will be released by next year.

“He wants to live close to where he previously did and he wants to live alone but I think that is very unlikely given his age and condition.

“He would need a carer and none of his friends or family want to know.”

Fritzl began molesting Elisabeth when she was 11, before imprisoning her in a filthy cellar in Amstetten near Vienna in 1984.

Three of the children he fathered lived with his daughter in windowless, soundproofed rooms behind a reinforced concrete door, three were raised upstairs in the house, and one died shortly after birth.

Fritzl is said to have burned the tragic baby’s body in an incinerator and scattered the ashes in the garden.

His crimes came to light in 2008 when the eldest of the children, Kerstin, became seriously ill and had to be taken to hospital.

The twisted monster was jailed the following year, aged 73, for rape, incest, enslavement, false imprisonment, and murder by negligence.

It was also astonishingly revealed that Fritzl believes he would receive a great “fanfare” on his release.

Lawyer Wagner explained: “He believes that when he is released, he will come out to a big celebration with people cheering and music and wanting to shake his hand.

“This is obviously not the case. It is a fantasy. I don’t think he fully understands what the world really thinks. Every time I see him, he says he regrets his decisions every day.

“He has ruined his life. He always talks about his regrets about his crimes. He thinks he has friends on the outside, but he hasn’t.

“One thing he accepts is that his family no longer want to see him and respects that.”

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A photo taken by a forensic team shows a view into a hidden room in a house in Amstetten, Austria[/caption]

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Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years[/caption]