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Frank Nadler, when told this week of the parole board’s decision by the National Post, said it was a huge mistake.

“He’d already had a lot of issues. He still had issues. I’m surprised the professionals in the system didn’t catch on and realize that. But Bob is very good at that — I can see Bob fooling them, he fooled the whole system,” said Frank.

“He fooled a lot of people for a lot of years.”

Including, he believes, Nadler’s wife. If she was not exactly fooled, she would have been manipulated and controlled, like everyone else in Nadler’s life, Frank said.

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Nadler’s problems ran so deep, Frank has “a sense” the massive explosion wasn’t an accident.

“I have a sense of it that they were at their wit’s end and it was some sort of a suicide pact,” he said. That sickening sense for Frank began soon after the explosion happened.

Frank felt the concussion from the Hickory Drive blast while he was at work at a warehouse three kilometres away, where he has worked for 16 years. He turned on the radio for information.

When he heard it was in the area of his brother’s house his mind soon went to the idea of Robert Nadler deliberately causing the blast because of his ongoing problems and past comments he made about suicide.

“Bob was obviously troubled from an early age,” said Frank.

Frank speaks bluntly about the roots of his brother’s problems. It started with his parents.

“World War Two really messed their heads up. They were ripped out of their families when they were teens,” he said. His parents were Germans living in Yugoslavia at the time. It put them in an awkward place, seen as German by the Slavs and as Slavs by the Germans.