Overview

• The trial of heiress Christina Block, her partner Gerhard Delling and five alleged accomplices begins July 11 at the Hamburg Regional Court.
• Dr. Ingo Bott, who joined Block’s defence this month, contends that Cyber Cupula acted independently in the New Year’s Eve abduction.
• The indictment charges that masked operatives bound two children aged 11 and 14 and marched them through a forest from Denmark into Germany.
• Delling faces accessory to kidnapping charges and a separate criminal complaint over allegedly fabricated paedophilia accusations against the children’s father.
• In May a Danish court awarded sole custody to father Stephan Hensel and Germany’s Constitutional Court rejected Block’s appeal challenging Danish jurisdiction.