Posted on 06/21/2014 11:22:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The incredible tale of a father who arranged a kidnapping in order to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France avoided prison time on Tuesday for the abduction. The father took matters into his own hands after Germany refused to extradite the suspect.
A 76-year-old Frenchman was convicted Wednesday of having kidnapped a German ex-doctor who had killed his daughter, but he avoided jail time as the court handed down a suspended sentence.
The court in the eastern French border town of Mulhouse gave Andre Bamberski a suspended one-year sentence for having abducted Dieter Krombach in Germany and brought him to France to face trial.
Krombach was found bound and gagged in 2009 near the courthouse in Mulhouse after Bamberski hired a kidnap team who snatched the ex-doctor from his home in the southern German town of Scheidegg.
Bamberski said he was "a bit disappointed" by the ruling, believing he should have been acquitted because he had a "moral compulsion" to act. He said he did not plan to appeal.
Krombach was convicted in 2011 over the death of Bamberski's 14-year-old daughter Kalinka -- who was living at the German's home with her mother and younger brother - in 1982.
Germany cleared Krombach of her death and refused to extradite him. But Bamberski was convinced of his guilt, especially after Krombach was convicted of drugging and raping a 16-year-old patient in 1997.
France's top court in April confirmed Krombach's conviction for "deliberate violence leading to involuntary death" and his 15-year prison sentence.
The two men who carried out the kidnapping - Anton Krasniqi of Kosovo and Georgian Kacha Bablovani - were also found guilty and each sentenced to a year in prison.
Krombach, 79, did not travel from prison in Paris to attend the trial for health reasons.
He didn’t avoid anything.
That was barely the correct outcome.
Good man...
Sounds like a movie. And he’s 76.
The timeline of events is quite confusing, but I admire the Dad of the deceased for trying to implement proper justice.
In 2011 73 years old with a 14-year old daughter.
Also notable that the daughter was living with Mom and her new boyfriend. Statistically an excellent recipe for trouble.
The boyfriend was 76 in 2011. Mom apparently like old guys.
Eh? The killing took place in 1982.
Dude’s kewel...
“Mom apparently like old guys.”
Or their money.
Thanks, missed that particular date. Confusingly written.
That's what I was thinking. Enough of comic book 'blockbusters'.
And it took him 32 years. A man of patience and determination.
You’ll never know what you’ll find “when you drag a hundred dollar bill through a Kosovo trailer park.”
The criminal probably gets more sympathy than the dad
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