If I was Belgian, I’d be pleased to see the Austrians taking on the mantle of weird insular paedoland. As Jamie says, the Josef Fritzl case is definitely the hallmark of a traditional, not a modern, society (see also: his mum’s horrible anecdote about Stoke in the 1950s).
But this isn’t a sophisticated and analytical blog, so I’ll confine myself to pointing out that Josef Fritzl looks almost identical to Viz’s paedophilic and artophilic baker Fru T Bunn:


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Natasha Kaplinsky must be feeling a bit upstaged.
It’s spooky, isn’t it?