FRANCE: Daughter of German doctor Dieter Krombach on trial in France protests conditions under which he is held

Record ID: 192819

  • Title: FRANCE: Daughter of German doctor Dieter Krombach on trial in France protests conditions under which he is held
  • Date: 5th October 2011
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 4, 2011) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF PARIS COURT (SOUNDBITE) (German) DAUGHTER OF KROMBACH, DIANA GUNTHER, SAYING: "He has his small cell with photographs of his family, a bible and things like that. He was put into a sort of tiled police cell. He is lying there alone. Yesterday afternoon at four, he was told you're staying here for three weeks. Come on, I mean he is under shock. After all, he needs support in order to be able to attend the trial. He too wants this to end. The only outcome can be a not guilty verdict. If you look at all the things that have been written and said - they have no basis. They're all assumptions made by the other side and which will not withstand. I am sure that it will have to end with a not guilty. He wants an end too. There must be an end because he physically can no longer take it." FRENCH GENDARMES VARIOUS OF LAWYERS AND PUBLIC ENTERING COURTROOM
  • Embargoed: 20th October 2011 13:00
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  • Location: France, France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Health
  • Reuters ID: LVACEGPXFP2UUGXY8DF3JITXMY1N
  • Story Text: The daughter of a German doctor on trial in France for the murder nearly 30 years ago of a teenager on Tuesday (October 4) protested at the conditions under which her father is being held and said that all he wanted was a swift end to proceedings.
    Dieter Krombach, went before a Paris court accused of the 1982 murder of a 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski in Bavaria, some two years after he was mysteriously abducted from his home in Germany and dumped over the French border.
    "He has his small cell with photographs of his family, a bible and things like that. He was put into a sort of tiled police cell. He is lying there alone. Yesterday afternoon at four, he was told you're staying here for three weeks. Come on, I mean he is under shock," Diana Gunther told reporters.
    This is the second trial for Krombach, who was found guilty in his absence in 1995 by a French court that sentenced him to 15 years in jail. At the time, Krombach was living in Bavaria, where several investigations by German authorities cleared him of any wrongdoing.
    The prosecution alleges that Krombach killed Bamberski while she was on vacation at his property in Germany with her mother, Krombach's wife, by injecting her with iron compounds.
    Extradition requests to France were denied as the German authorities had cleared him.
    The case remained dormant until October 2009, when Krombach turned up bound and gagged just over the border in eastern France.
    The victim's father, Andre Bamberski, faces separate kidnapping charges for the abduction. Several French courts have ruled that although Krombach may have been brought to France illegally, he should nonetheless face justice in France.
    The Paris court trying Krombach postponed a first attempt to try him earlier this year for health reasons.
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