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French father tried for pursuing daughter’s killer

By Washington Examiner
Published May 22, 2014 3:28pm ET
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French father tried for pursuing daughter’s killer
Andre Bamberski, right, the father of Kalinka, a girl who died in Germany in 1982 aged 15, greets Adelheid Rinke, who is suspected of having helped Bamberski, prior to their trial at the Mulhouse courthouse, eastern France, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Bamberski, a 76-year-old Frenchman is on trial for taking justice into his own hands after a decades-long mission to avenge his daughter's death. He is accused of ordering retired doctor Dieter Krombach kidnapped in Germany in 2009 and brought to France to face charges in the 1982 death of 15-year-old Kalinka. (AP Photo/Darek Szuster) | Darek Szuster

PARIS (AP) — A 76-year-old Frenchman has gone on trial for taking justice into his own hands after a decades-long mission to avenge his daughter’s death.

Andre Bamberski is accused of ordering the kidnapping five years ago in Germany of retired doctor Dieter Krombach, who was tied up and dumped near a French courthouse to face charges in the 1982 death of Bamberski’s 15-year-old daughter, Kalinka. Krombach was the girl’s stepfather.

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