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I don't ever remember reading about such a convoluted case.

Timeline

July 1982 Kalinka Bamberski dies aged 14, while on holiday at Lake Constance, southern Germany, after Dieter Krombach injects her with a substance that was supposed to encourage a tan. He later changes his statement to say it was a remedy for anaemia.

1995 The post-mortem examination, which Krombach attended, failed to establish the cause of death but experts suggested that Kalinka had suffered heart failure from sunstroke. Injuries to Kalinka's genitals and an unidentified white substance was found in her vagina, but neither were investigated. A court in Paris declares Krombach guilty in abstentia and sentences the cardiologist to 15 years in prison for manslaughter.

1997 Krombach convicted in Germany of sexually abusing a 16-year-old patient after injecting her with anaesthetic in his surgery. He is given a two-year suspended sentence and stripped of his licence to practise medicine

1998 A second autopsy on Kalinka's exhumed body finds that her genitals had been removed, ruling out any chance of further tests.

2001 Krombach wins his case against France before the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that he was denied a fair hearing and the right to an appeal in the Kalinka trial

2004 Paris prosecutors issue a European arrest warrant but a Munich court rejects the demand, arguing that the German investigation had found the man not guilty

2007 Krombach convicted of fraud for continuing to practice illegally

October 2009 Krombach is found gagged and tied up, dumped outside a court in France. He was abducted in Bavaria and driven across the border by a Croat called Anton who had offered his services to Bamberski, having heard and sympathised with his plight.

March 2010 The pivotal decision was made by nine judges in the Palais de Justice, that Krombach must stand trial in France, even though he had been kidnapped in Bavaria, taken across the border and delivered, bound and gagged, to French police.