Killer Nazi pensioner fled in a van with Heil Hitler on it

Published on: November 1, 2017

Friedrich Fritz, 66, shot dead two of his neighbours and injured a third
He fled the village of Stilwoll near Graz in a van with ‘Heil Hitler!’ written on it
Fritz is a member of the far-right German ‘Reich Citizens’ Movement’

By Allan Hall In Berlin for MailOnline

Published: 13:00 GMT, 1 November 2017 | Updated: 13:06 GMT, 1 November 2017

Nazi killer: Friedrich Fritz, 66, shot and killed two of his neighbours in Austria

Nazi killer: Friedrich Fritz, 66, shot and killed two of his neighbours in Austria

A massive manhunt is underway for an Austrian neo-Nazi pensioner who murdered two people before fleeing in a van with Heil Hitler! emblazoned on it.

Friedrich Fritz, 66, is said to have shot dead two of his neighbours in the village of Stilwoll near Graz, and seriously injured a third.

He allegedly shot his neighbours in a dispute about access to his land using a rifle that belonged to his wife, a registered hunter.

Police took to social media after the killings to warn people that far-right fanatic Fritz is dangerous and should not be approached.

His white Volkswagen van with ‘Heil Hitler!’ written on a sign in large black letters, was found abandoned in woodland soon afterwards but he had vanished.

Fritz ran a website which translates as ‘judicial violence’ in which he railed at judges and prosecutors he claimed had wronged him.

He is a self-proclaimed member of the far-right Reichsbuerger movement.

Far-right supporter: After shooting three of his neighbours, killing two, he then took off in a white Volkswagen van with 'Heil Hitler!' written in large black letters across the back windows

Far-right supporter: After shooting three of his neighbours, killing two, he then took off in a white Volkswagen van with ‘Heil Hitler!’ written in large black letters across the back windows

Missing: His white Volkswagen van was found abandoned in woodland soon afterwards, but Mr Fritz had vanished

Missing: His white Volkswagen van was found abandoned in woodland soon afterwards, but Mr Fritz had vanished

The Reichsbürgerbewegung – the Reich Citizens’ Movement – do not recognise the German government or the country’s post-WW2 borders.

On Wednesday there was a reported sighting of him in Amstetten 120 miles from his village.

Amstetten was made infamous in 2008 when depraved father Josef Fritzl was arrested for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a cellar beneath his home, raping her repeatedly and fathering seven incest children with her. He is serving life in a secure psychiatric hospital.

Police in Amstetten joined the hunt for him but so far he remains st large.