Murder trial to go ahead
Defence lawyers had asked for the delay to seek a European Court of Justice ruling on whether the trial is valid because former Dr Dieter Krombach was kidnapped in Germany and brought to France on the orders of the girl’s French father.
Krombach lived in freedom for years in Germany after 15-year-old Kalinka Bamberski was found dead in her bed in 1982 in his home in Germany. The girl and her mother had moved in with Krombach after the girl’s parents separated.
Then in 2009, Krombach was kidnapped and left near a courthouse in eastern France.
The girl’s father, Andre Bamberski, has admitted involvement in the kidnapping, saying he wanted Krombach tried.
