The woman at the centre of “Sweden’s Fritzl” case has opened up about her harrowing ordeal.
According to the Daily Mail, the woman told police that Martin Trenneborg wanted to keep her locked up for years.
“He told me that if I were to try to escape, he would punish me by chaining me to the bed and I would get nothing to eat but crisp bread,” she says.
The Daily Mail have reported that the victim first got to know Treneborg over the phone before agreeing to a first date at her Stockholm flat. They had sex.
“When we were having sex he kept staring at me. Like, the whole time. Stared right into my eyes … a lot, and that’s very unusual, that you do that the whole time,” she said.
The woman agreed to see Trenneborg again for a second date, during which he gave her Rohypnol-laced strawberries, raped her and drove her to his home in a village outside Kristianstad.
She says that when she regained consciousness, she had two needles stuck in her arm and was hooked up to medical equipment monitoring her pulse.
Trenneborg spent five years building the bunker and told his victim he was the only person who could open the door.
“He told me that the door was the same as they have in bank vaults, that the walls were made of thick concrete and that no one would hear me scream how much I tried and that it is impossible to get out from there,” the woman said.
“He also said that if I was going to attack him and kill him. All I would have been left with was a stinking corpse. There was no way for me to get out of the bunker without his assistance.”
The woman also says that she feared she would be raped, tortured or killed.
“He said that he wanted to bring another woman to the bunker. He was targeting some kind of celebrity. His plan was to dress as a plumber and knock on his victims door and then kidnap her,” she said.
“He asked me if my mum was as pretty as me. Then he said that perhaps my mum could be the other girl in the bunker. The thought of him bringing my mum to the bunker, scared the life out of me.”
The police found two rubber masks in Trenneborg’s bedroom. His victim says he planned to use them as disguises.
“He asked me if my mum was as pretty as me. Then he said that perhaps my mum could be the other girl in the bunker. The thought of him bringing my mum to the bunker, scared the life out of me.”
Trenneborg’s barrister Mari Schaub says that her client has serious psychological issues.
“My client’s motivation is basically he thought that nobody would live with him if they didn’t get to know him thoroughly and he wanted to someone to share his life with,” she told news.com.au from Sweden where a trial will begin on Monday.
“He is a man with high intelligence but very low self-esteem and life has hurt him. He is not a psychopath, not a sexual deviant, he is a complex person that at the time of the crime thought that this was the way for him to get a partner.”
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