AUSTRIA:AUSTRIAN WOMAN Natascha Kampusch has bought the Vienna house where she was held captive for eight years.
Ms Kampusch was abducted as a 10-year-old in March 1998 on the way to school in a Vienna suburb and held in a secret cellar under the house.
Hours after she escaped from the house in August 2006, her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.
Now Ms Kampusch (20) has bought Priklopil's house to prevent it being vandalised or turned into a shrine to the crime.
"It's grotesque in a way," Ms Kampusch has told Bunte magazine. "Now I have to pay the electricity, water and rates for a house in which I never wanted to live."
Ms Kampusch says she is no longer afraid of the house of Priklopil, who demanded that she call him "master".
"Nothing seems as threatening as then, but on the other hand it is also a house of horror," she says.
In the interview, Ms Kampusch expresses her disgust at Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who held his daughter in a secret cellar in the town of Amstetten for 24 years, fathering her seven children.
"It makes me furious the way he portrays himself in the media. This man is a huge egoist. He doesn't care a bit about others.
"He must have known that he was doing wrong.
"What's monstrous is his claim that he loves his wife and daughter," she adds. "It's sick what he did."
Ms Kampusch said she felt a connection to Elisabeth Fritzl and her six surviving children, to whom she has donated €25,000, although she said their cases differed.
"In my case you have to ask why a complete stranger hits upon the idea of taking a child away from a parent and cause them such trauma," she says.
"But this Fritzl did this to his own child, his own family. That is even more unbelievable."