Overview
- Hamburg prosecutors confirmed they questioned David Barkay under §295 secure conduct and suspended the international search, with a warning it will resume if he evades the process.
- Barkay, pursued separately from the main trial, is suspected of leading the Israeli team that took the children from Denmark on New Year’s Eve 2023/24.
- One alleged participant, the 36-year-old Israeli Tal S., remains in pre-trial detention and has extensively confessed to involvement, according to court proceedings.
- The trial continues with the court summoning the Danish wife of Stephan Hensel, the children’s father and admitted co-complainant, to testify on Wednesday.
- Eugen Block has expanded a supervisory complaint against the presiding judge, alleging delays in a parallel case against Hensel and a conflict in Hensel’s co-complainant role; the court says such complaints do not affect the ongoing hearings.