A German cardiologist convicted of killing his French lover's daughter 27 years ago was kidnapped and dumped, bound and gagged, outside a French courthouse, police said Tuesday.
Dieter Krombach, 74, was convicted in absentia in 1995 of manslaughter in France over the death of 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski, who died mysteriously at his home in Lindau in Germany while visiting with her mother in 1982.
The doctor was found on Sunday trussed up and bleeding from a head wound, in a doorway near the court in the eastern city of Mulhouse, just over the German border, police said.
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German doctor kidnapped and dumped before French courthouse
A French court sentenced Krombach in absentia to 15 years for manslaughter in 1995. His French trial came after an autopsy on Kalinka's exhumed body, carried out at her father's request, suggested foul play in her death.
but Germany refused to hand him over on the grounds that he has already been tried by a German court, which dismissed the case for lack of evidence.
Krombach was handed a two-year suspended sentence by a German court in 2007 for sexually abusing a 16-year-old patient after injecting her with anaesthetic in his surgery.
TYPICAL GERMAN JUSTICE.
but, but, He only raped her before he killed her....
and she was only french...
This Sh*t makes me sick.
but Germany refused to hand him over on the grounds that he has already been tried by a German court, which dismissed the case for lack of evidence.
Krombach was handed a two-year suspended sentence by a German court in 2007 for sexually abusing a 16-year-old patient after injecting her with anaesthetic in his surgery.
TYPICAL GERMAN JUSTICE.
but, but, He only raped her before he killed her....
and she was only french...
This Sh*t makes me sick.
Maybe they can trade him for Polanski. Gee, German courts are so biased against women and sooo protective of German men. Sickening stuff, this.
I applaud the kidnappers - way to go.
This is sickening! He was even not jailed for the sexual assault on his patient before, next time he might just murder the victims to cover his crime; who knows! Why is this disgusting criminal pedophile protected by the German court? I feel grief for Ms. Mamberski's father, who is still fighting for justice after all these years. He should really be fighting in the European Court of Human rights, to show that such court cannot be mainpulated after all by such criminal pedophiles; but on the side of justice in reality!
thank god they pixeled his eyes out, that really protects his identity...oh wait, his name is plastered all over this article.
Very strange how people get away with stuff in this country. Why is that judges that hand down these sentences are seldom named in these reports. This issue of guilt mostly falls on the jury and legal loopholes can set guilty people free. But once a person has been convicted it's usually the judge that hands down the punishment.
What is a "suspended sentence" anyway?
And why does it take 13 years (1982-1995) to finish a trial?
Very strange how people get away with stuff in this country. Why is that judges that hand down these sentences are seldom named in these reports. This issue of guilt mostly falls on the jury and legal loopholes can set guilty people free. But once a person has been convicted it's usually the judge that hands down the punishment.
What is a "suspended sentence" anyway?
And why does it take 13 years (1982-1995) to finish a trial?
Jury? What jury would that be then?
Good to see such keen legal minds deciding that the German judical system is so pants.
Good to see such keen legal minds deciding that the German judical system is so pants.
The father of the girl was arrested and charged for kidnapping the SOB.
According to this story in the Times
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It is the tale of a retired accountant from near Toulouse who ordered the kidnapping of a retired cardiologist in Germany over the weekend. The case is unusual. It goes back to 1982. André Bamberski, 72, the accountant , was on the radio explaining this morning how he paid 20,000 euros to have Dr Dieter Krombach, 74, abducted in his home-town of Scheidegg in Bavaria on Saturday. He was dumped in the French city of Mulhouse on Sunday.
Public opinion is on Bamberski's side because his act in hiring a gang of east European kidnappers is seen as understandable. In 1995, Krombach was convicted in his absence by a Paris court of killing Bamberski's 14-year-old daughter Kalinka.The German authorities refused to take any action because their prosecutors had found that there was no case to answer in the 1980s. The French authorities made no serious attempt to seek Krombach's extradition, the father says.
The law seems to be an ass in this case.Public opinion is on Bamberski's side because his act in hiring a gang of east European kidnappers is seen as understandable. In 1995, Krombach was convicted in his absence by a Paris court of killing Bamberski's 14-year-old daughter Kalinka.The German authorities refused to take any action because their prosecutors had found that there was no case to answer in the 1980s. The French authorities made no serious attempt to seek Krombach's extradition, the father says.
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poor father, having to seek such measures to get some form of closure.
Having spared the police job, he should now sue the German government for the costs of expatriation!
Having spared the police job, he should now sue the German government for the costs of expatriation!
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