First photos of Natasha Kampusch in magazine interview, voxpop reax
(6 Sep 2006) 1. Man selling magazine with Natascha Kampusch interview 2. Close up magazine with Kampusch on cover 3. Various of people buying magazine 4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Vox Pop: "I expect (from this interview) that she can talk openly, without the media being on her trail, or reporting wrong things by misinterpreting what she says. Hopefully she will talk freely and not read out a script that somebody else has written for her." 5. SOUNDBITE: (German) Vox Pop: "Because it is an interesting story and Natascha Kampusch's first public appearance, and that's why I'm reading it. Q: what do you think about all the media attention? I understand that. But I also understand that she wants her peace and quiet." 6. Various of magazine article, entitled "I thought only of escape" STORYLINE: The young Austrian woman imprisoned for 8 1/2 years in an underground cell "thought only of escape" during her entire ordeal, and once tried to jump out of her captor's car, she told a magazine and a newspaper in interviews published on Wednesday. Natascha Kampusch, who bolted to freedom on August 23 while her captor busied himself with a cell phone call, told the Austrian weekly magazine News that she repeatedly asked herself: "Why, of all the many millions of people, did this have to happen to me?" The interview hit the newsstands a few hours before a TV interview with Kampusch, now 18, was to be aired nationwide, an event widely anticipated by the public. "Hopefully she will talk freely and not read out a script that somebody else has written for her," said one woman questioned about her expectations of the interview. Kampusch told News that she "thought only of escape," during her ordeal, two weeks after she won her freedom by taking advantage of kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil's distracting call to run to neighbours, who called police. Priklopil, 44, killed himself within hours of her escape by jumping in front of a commuter train. In a separate interview with the mass-circulation daily Kronen Zeitung, Kampusch said she had tried to jump out of Priklopil's car, "but he held me back and then sped away." She did not say when the failed escape attempt occurred. "I always had the thought: Surely I didn't come into the world so I could be locked up and my life completely ruined," Kampusch was quoted as saying by News. "I always felt like a poor chicken in a hen house. You saw on TV how small my cell was - it was a place to despair." News printed a large colour photograph of a pensive-looking Kampusch on its cover, showing her with piercing blue eyes and a pink kerchief covering part of her strawberry blonde hair. The magazine said it interviewed Kampusch at Vienna's General Hospital, where a cardiologist examined her for possible heart trouble. She said she had suffered throughout her captivity from heart palpitations that at times made her dizzy and rendered her memory of some events "fuzzy." Kampusch also said she often did not get enough to eat. Another Austrian magazine, Profil, had reported that at the time of her escape she weighed just 42 kilogrammes (92 pounds) - exactly her weight when she was snatched off a street while walking to school as a freckle-faced 10-year-old. Kampusch called her escape "completely spontaneous." "I was there behind the gate to the garden and I felt dizzy. I realised for the first time how weak I really was," she said. "But it all clicked. On the day of the escape, I was well - physically, mentally and no heart problems." Once out on the street, "I saw a window open and someone busy in a kitchen, and I asked the woman to call the police," she said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
