Incest monster Josef Fritzl was a regular at a brothel where he ordered terrified prostitutes to pretend to be dead, it was revealed today. A former bartender at the bordello claimed Fritzl was so weird and domineering, girls at the club were reluctant to go with him.
Christoph Flugel worked for six years at the Villa Ostende in Linz, 40 miles from Amstetten where Fritzl, 73, built the underground lair where he raped his daughter over 24 years. He was neatly dressed and courteous. But as soon as one of the girls he wanted to go upstairs with approached him, his mood changed.
He added: "Ninety-five percent of customers are totally normal, three per cent are a bit weird. Fritzl belongs to the remaining two per cent that are definitely mentally ill. Two of them even strictly refused to and did without the earnings. But Fritzl went there again and again as the brothel changed its prostitutes every ten weeks. I will never forget his tight-fistedness too. Working as a bartender, you never forget such behaviour, especially when working in a night club. Josef Fritzl was a regular at the Villa Ostende brothel in the city of Linz.
Below, the reception area where Fritzl would lounge about waiting to choose a girl and, bottom, one of the rooms that he may have used to satisfy his lust. As soon as he found one of the girls attractive and ordered champagne, he said things like, 'sit straight!
And upstairs, in a room, he got completely out of the track. Asked what he meant, by an Austrian newspaper reporter, Flugel replied: "Perverse. I heard about that when talking to the girls. Two of them said, 'never again with that guy! Fritzl's habit of driving forty miles to a nightclub illustrated his compulsive need to keep his secret world separate from his outward show of being a respectable professional. Police have already revealed how he would drive miles to buy toiletries or sanitary items for his captive daughter Elisabeth and the children imprisoned with her so there would be no wagging tongues in his hometown.
