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A 35-year-old man who abducted his daughter, drove his car to the Hamburg airport and provoked an hours-long stand-off with police last November that caused major disruptions to air travel was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday. A German court found the man guilty of hostage-taking, kidnapping, intentional bodily harm and illegal possession of ammunition. “Twelve years’ imprisonment for this insane act. That is our answer,” said presiding judge Torsten Schwarz in Hamburg on Tuesday in granting the prosecutor’s request for a 12-year prison sentence. The defendant had largely confessed t…

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