Overview

• Christina Block terminated lead attorney Otmar Kury on August 5 following clashes over defense strategy.
• Kury’s controversial theory had implicated her late mother in ordering the removal of her two children from Denmark.
• Co-counsel Ingo Bott now argues that a private security company once hired by the family orchestrated the abduction to profit from her plight.
• Prosecutors contend masked operatives bound the children and transported them across the German-Danish border on New Year’s Eve 2023.
• The charges arise after Danish courts awarded sole custody to her ex-husband, a ruling upheld by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court.