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Some four months after the 18-hour hostage-taking at Germany’s Hamburg Airport, the public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against the alleged perpetrator. The 35-year-old Turkish man is to answer for hostage-taking, kidnapping of minors, intentional bodily harm and weapons offences, the prosecution announced on Thursday. The man is accused of abducting his 4-year-old daughter from her mother’s flat in Stade in the state of Lower Saxony on the evening of November 4 and driving to Hamburg Airport with the child. He broke through three barriers with the car and drove onto the airport apr…