German doctor Dieter Krombach, sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of his daughter-in-law Kalinka Bamberski in 1982, was released on Friday on medical grounds, a source familiar with the matter, confirming information from BFMTV.
In October, the Melun sentencing court ordered the suspension of sentence on medical grounds of this 84-year-old man, released Friday morning from a prison in Seine-et-Marne, near Paris.
A judicial soap opera almost 40 years old
It is the epilogue of a judicial soap opera almost 40 years old: Kalinka Bamberski, 14, had been found dead on July 10, 1982 in Lindau in Bavaria (Germany) at the home of this cardiologist, the new companion of his mother, on the shore of Lake Constance, where she was spending holidays.
Despite the efforts of André Bamberski, the father of the victim, the German courts had abandoned all proceedings against the doctor who lived at home in Germany. French justice, on the other hand, had condemned him in absentia to 15 years for "voluntary violence having resulted in death without intention to give it".
Krombach kidnapped by father of victim
In 2009, André Bamberski organized the kidnapping of the doctor in Germany to deliver him to the French police, who found him tied up and gagged on a sidewalk in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin, east).
For this abduction, carried out by two Kosovar and Georgian henchmen, André Bamberski was sentenced in June 2014 in Mulhouse to one year in prison suspended.
The German doctor, who unsuccessfully challenged his conviction before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), has been demanding for five years to be released on medical grounds.
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