A father's revenge

[Inky_Wretch]

In 1995, a French court convicted a German doctor in absentia of manslaughter in a girl's 1982 death. Germany refuses to extradite him. This past weekend, the doctor was found tied up and gagged on the steps of a French courthouse. The girl's father is the suspect in the kidnapping.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6882688.ece

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Beautiful

 

[spnited]

I didn't know Starman was French.

 

[LWillhite]

I didn't know Starman was French.

L'etoile-homme?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Brav-****ing-O....
That man should be given the highest civilian award possible!

 

[qtlaw]

I thought only the Mossad did this type of stuff.

 

[Small Town Guy]

I thought only the Mossad did this type of stuff.

And Batman in the Dark Knight.

 

[waterytart]

André Bamberski is a very religious man. He does not want revenge, he wants justice.

Given that the German doctor was delivered to the courthouse, I think a decent case can be made for this. Plenty of fathers would have delivered him to the morgue.

 

[Football_Bat]

Under international law, the French may not be able to keep Krombach in jail if Germany objects. The Ronnie Biggs kidnapping from Brazil in 1981 is a precedent.

 

[imjustagirl]

OK, I stopped reading a few paragraphs in...but the doctor was living with the girl's mother? So was he essentially in a stepfather role, and drugged her to rape her?

Because if so, the restraint shown by the father in this case is admirable.

 

[D-3 Fan]

First French victory over the Germans since 1918 ... (hey, somebody had to say it ...)

Shocked, I tell you, shocked, that the French won something.

OK, I stopped reading a few paragraphs in...but the doctor was living with the girl's mother? So was he essentially in a stepfather role, and drugged her to rape her?

Because if so, the restraint shown by the father in this case is admirable.

Or, the doctor was a "live-in" BF, rather than being married to her and being considered as step-father.

Mel Gibson and "Ransom" feels that father didn't go far enough to get revenge.

 

[imjustagirl]

Right. I'm saying I read Inky's lead-in and figured it was a doctor who accidentally overdosed her. I was just shocked to find out this wasn't in a professional setting, that he knew this girl and basically drugged her to rape her.

 

[shockey]

OK, I stopped reading a few paragraphs in...but the doctor was living with the girl's mother? So was he essentially in a stepfather role, and drugged her to rape her?

Because if so, the restraint shown by the father in this case is admirable.

wfeffin'w.

 

[KevinmH9]

Brav-****ing-O....
That man should be given the highest civilian award possible!

Indeed. Great story.

 

[Starman]

I didn't know Starman was French.

Je ne l'ai pas fait, monsieur.

Plus, the guy was still alive. :

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Under international law, the French may not be able to keep Krombach in jail if Germany objects. The Ronnie Biggs kidnapping from Brazil in 1981 is a precedent.

This is why the idea of "international law" and such can lead to some bad precedents. The guy finally has to answer to charges of something he did that was wrong, and the French are just expected to turn him back over like he was never there?

 

[Football_Bat]

Under international law, the French may not be able to keep Krombach in jail if Germany objects. The Ronnie Biggs kidnapping from Brazil in 1981 is a precedent.

This is why the idea of "international law" and such can lead to some bad precedents. The guy finally has to answer to charges of something he did that was wrong, and the French are just expected to turn him back over like he was never there?

It's one thing to arrest a fugitive at the Zurich airport and extradite him to the U.S. But obviously, the fact that a crime was committed in the process of delivery puts this case under a cloud. We'll see what happens.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Hey, charge the French guy with kidnapping then, if you can prove he did it. Extradite him, or play the German's game and refuse to do so. But the fact is the French have their guy. Thus, he should start serving his time.

 

[Football_Bat]

According to the story, under French law (there's that dreaded L-word again), he has to be retried if arrested after being tried in absentia. Which raises the question of why waste time trying him in absentia in the first place without full bear of prosecutorial defense. Which, in turn, may raise the question of why Deutschland wouldn't protest. Just saying.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Life imitating art? I saw Law Abiding Citizen over the weekend and, well, there are parallels. You know, up to the point where people started getting hacked to pieces.