Bamberski

Mr. Bamberski, 74, will soon be tried for his involvement in the kidnapping.

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"I do not 'suspect,' I do not 'imagine,' " Mr. Bamberski, a retired accountant, said in an interview.

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Mr. Bamberski, who has joined himself to the state's case, as is his right under French law, sits before a panel of robed judges, flanked by his lawyers and stacks of bulging files, the accumulation of decades of investigation, occasionally raising a shaky index finger in a request to intervene.

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André Bamberski hunted a man he said killed his child, Kalinka, and stole his wife, Danièle Gonnin. @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines.

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On the morning of July 10, 1982, the body of Kalinka Bamberski was found in her bed at the home of her stepfather, Dr. Krombach, in the lakeside town of Lindau, Germany.

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It was in 1982 that Krombach tried to rape 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski and then killed her with an injection of lethal drugs.

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Bamberski now faces criminal charges himself for organising the kidnapping.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Peter Allen 2011

Despite his celebration, however, Bamberski said he would have preferred Krombach to have been found guilty of murder, rather than just manslaughter.

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On Saturday, Bamberski was overjoyed at the verdict, saying: My first thought is for Kalinka.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Peter Allen 2011

Mr. Bamberski believes that the iron injection caused a drop in blood pressure and the vomiting that probably killed her.

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