Overview

• After five days of questioning, Stephan Hensel detailed what he called persistent monitoring in Denmark by security teams and said his children were given an alarm device by police.
• Detained co-defendant Tal S., 36, apologized to Hensel and the children, accepted responsibility for Hensel’s injuries, and disputed a detail about the restraint material used.
• Christina Block delivered an emotional statement denying she ordered a kidnapping, said she only hired firms briefly to check on the children, and noted phone contact with ex-intelligence chief August Hanning unrelated to the operation.
• The court allowed contentious questions to Block about options allegedly discussed for retrieving the children, overruling a defense objection, and later adjourned until Wednesday.
• The presiding judge removed Block adviser Béla Anda from the courtroom as a potential witness, while Hensel said daughter Klara wants to testify and that his son should not.