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Escape claims a 'sheer lie', Kampusch says
By Thomas Hochwarter
Kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has branded claims she fled her sick jailer twice during captivity but returned within hours a "sheer lie".
"The claim I returned to my kidnapper voluntarily after successfully fleeing from him twice is a sheer lie and a perfidious statement," the 21-year-old said in a written statement issued today (Mon) in a reaction to a magazine report.
News weekly profil reported today that Kampusch came back to Wolfgang Priklopil on the same day on two occasions before finally escaping him in August 2006.
Kampusch blasted the article and said she would have never returned if she had managed to flee her jailer.
She said: "Instead of speaking to me or the state prosecutor about it, anonymous informers are quoted."
Kampusch attacked journalist Emil Bobi for "not doing the news magazine a good service" by "spreading lies that can be dismissed by the head state prosecutor in little time".
Kampusch – who lives in Vienna – said she was "shocked" by the claims.
"This article is a low point in covering my past," she said.
Kampusch explained: "I once broke down at the garden gate and was caught by my jailer after a few seconds as I was much too weak to escape because of my extreme malnourishment and psychological intimidation."
The profil article meanwhile claims investigators said Kampusch first ran away when Priklopil – who committed suicide on the day she escaped in August 2006 – took her with him to a flat where he was doing renovation work.
She then also tried to escape from his house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn in Lower Austria where she was held, the article says, claiming that on both occasions she returned on the same day.
Kampusch – who was kept in a dungeon cellar for more than eight years by Priklopil after being snatched off the road on her way to school in Vienna – revealed in interviews given shortly after she escaped that Priklopil took her on skiing and shopping trips.
Kampusch, whose TV chat show "Natascha Kampusch trifft…" (Natascha Kampusch meets…) was scrapped by private broadcaster Puls 4 after just three editions, recently compared her life today to that of a "hermit crab".
Meanwhile a new TV documentary about her eight years in captivity is to be broadcast by Germany’s ARD later this month. "Natascha Kampusch - 3.096 Tage Gefangenschaft" (Natascha Kampusch – 3,096 Days in Captivity), a 45-minute production, will be aired on 25 January.
Kampusch, who recently revealed she turned vegetarian, allowed producers to film in the tiny cellar room where she was held by Priklopil.
Austrian Times
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Medawar wrote on 04. 01. 2010 from Potton England about "Escape claims a 'sheer li..."
The claim is inconsistent with the panic-stricken and suicidal reaction of her abductor when she really did escape. If she had a history of coming back, he wouldn't have bothered, if he was liable to suicide upon her escape, he'd have done it the first time she escaped. The claim does not stand scrutiny. Does Austria have any equivalent to the English Common Law Tort of "Malicious Falsehood?"
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Peter Green wrote on 04. 01. 2010 from London about "Escape claims a 'sheer li..."
I disagree Medawar - if you were familiar with the story you would known that he thought he had brainwashed the perfect girlfriend - he took her on skiing holidays and shopping - she has admitted that in interview - and the fact she ran off but always came back would have reinforced that - except this time she didnt and even iof she later regretted it and wanted to go back - the fact that the police had her and were on to him meant the game was up - the fact she carries his photo in her handbag and lit a candle at his grave and slammed the police for letting him die shows she probably didnt intent it to go as far as she did. These new revelations absoutely fit the profil !!!
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Medawar wrote on 04. 01. 2010 from Potton England about "Escape claims a 'sheer li..."
No-one has done much study of the damage that abduction does to the mind of the abductor rather than the abductee. John Fowles probably comes closer with "The Collector" than any "factual" psychologists. ("Psychiatry is witchcraft standing in the way of science"). The assumption is that the damage is what causes them to do it, not an ongoing process where their state worsens as a result of what they are into. However, con artists, that is, pathological liars, become absolutely terrifyingly violent and sadistic if a victim or someone else in their power turns on them, or a key lie is exposed. People associated with them, who come to know the score, often continue to go along out of a really deep-rooted fear that goes beyond death, because the rage, once triggered, is so intense. Assuming you're right that the abductor topped himself when he knew she was in police hands, an alternative interpretation might be that his wasn't the controlling mentality and he was terrified to face whoever was, in the sort of state they'd go into if exposed. A related example was the way in which Mark Sale pleaded guilty to a murder committed by Christopher Beales (whom Medawar did once encounter: a very frightening man). Sales was happy to accept the blame for the murder as long as that's what Beales said and as long as Beales was alive, but has been protesting his innocence ever since. Perhaps we should look for the "Christopher Beales" mentality in the Kampusch case?
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