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A man who smashed his car through the gates of Hamburg Airport and parked it on the tarmac with his 4-year-old daughter inside has confessed to the kidnapping of his child and other crimes. “I just wanted to leave Germany. I wanted the police to find ways to send us to Turkey,” the 35-year-old Turkish man said on Monday in a statement read out by his defence lawyer. The trial is taking place nearly six months after the bizarre incident in November that lasted 18 hours and disrupted air traffic for nearly a day. He had wanted to fly to Istanbul with his daughter, he said when asked by the presi…

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